Blake Robert Templeton argues the Christian tradition has left men spiritually infantile by denying them spiritual authority. He calls for a "holy rebellion" where men reject lust, fear, and shame to claim their full manhood and willingness to fight evil and suffer for Christ over a lifetime.
The holy rebellion may seem abstract. How does someone actually have Jesus? Like, when does he receive Jesus? It's a moment in time. It's a revelation. Well, the holy rebellion normally doesn't happen at the same time. It's just so much capacity of who he is. Jesus doesn't take someone at the beginning from like, do you believe in me, to all the way to like, are you willing to fight for me? Are you willing to destroy all evil because of me? Are you willing to die for me? Those normally don't happen at the same time in the game of life. The holy rebellion is a much more mature situation. That's what the whole game of life is about. But when someone's on milk, when they're still in diapers, they don't understand the consequences of anything. But herein lies the problem. As the Christian faith— listen carefully— we actually left all the men in diapers. See, the holy rebellion is the rebellion against spiritual authority taking his birthright from him. Every man has to wake up. It's the rebellion against captivity. It's, it's the uprising of a man who says I will not bow to lust. I will not bow to fear. I will not bow to shame. I won't bow to comfort. I will not bow to the voice that says I can't be the man I'm called to be.
