Blake Robert Templeton argues that biblical masculinity isn't about career, wealth, or family, but mastering your emotions and thoughts. He says you must sever your connection to what he calls a "slave lord" controlling your mind to gain spiritual authority and help others.
you start affecting other people's lives by breathing life into their dead bones. And that's what it looks like to be biblically masculine, to hold weight in the kingdom, to own the position that God's given you. This life is not just about having a job, making money, buying things, raising up in your status, living a higher quality of life, having 2 kids and 2 dogs, playing soccer and doing the things. That's not what the game of life's even about. The game of life is winning in your emotions and your thoughts. The only way to in your emotions and your thoughts is to take authority. The only way to take authority is to sever the umbilical cord to the slave lord who is currently functionally giving you his thoughts and his emotions.
