The 108th entry from GW is to "let our indulgences be manful not sinful".
This is tricky. Heres why -
For what it is to be a man? Have the lines been drawn too thin? Or has society made the "perfect man" fade into the twilight with the arrival of the feminist movement or even the BGT movement? Whichever way we put it, man, the real man to the core, is scary slowly fading into oblivion.
I cant help it but to quote scripture again. Heres what Paul has to advise Timothy his disciple.
"Whoever aspires to be an overseer (man) desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full[a] respect. 5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. 7 He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap".
There. No need to add words or expound further.
If there are indulgences that needed to be aimed and cultivated for, I believe it is by focusing into the words of wisdom found in scripture (like above) that has been there all along, always ripe for the picking..
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