Mentoring Our Boys –

While money is not inherently bad, the love of money is evil (1 Timothy 6:10). And when it comes to financial indebtedness, the borrower is a servant to the lender (Proverbs 22:7). Now in light of today’s national financial crisis, I can’t help but bring the issue into the topic of mentoring boys into manhood.

Squires2Knights Ministries

The Knighthood Verses offered by Squires2Knights Ministries (S2K) teach from twelve principles about God’s design for men. Among them are “wisdom,” “Be on Your Guard” and “Act Like Men” (from which we teach the responsibility of servant leadership and provision). Had today’s men been taught to be wise with money, to guard against materialism and excessive debt and to responsibly provide for the family, community and nation, our country would not be in the financial crisis we are faced with today.

Financial Responsibility

With the principles taught by S2K, men would not take their families into the mortgage debts that have causes the crash in the housing market and the mortgage banking industry. Men would not allow the companies they run to take the financial risk or to make the poor financial decisions we’ve witnessed of late. And finally, men would not allow the political direction we see with the government welfare and entitlement programs that are rewarding families and companies for the poor financial choices they’ve made.

Equip Mentors

As I have articulated so often, most of our social problems are symptoms of a single problem. For generations now, we haven’t really taught boys how to men. Tomorrow’s hope is in today’s boys. Today’s boys need changed men. They need faithful men. They need men equipped to to model, teach and mentor our boys.

Find our resources for equipping men at www.mentoringourboysbooks.com.

Posted on February 28th, 2009 by Jeff Purkiss
Filed under: Cultural Issues, Fathering/Mentoring