St. Louis
Hosts Men at the Cross July 17-18
By
Jim Day
It’s a fatherless world. Thousands of men
leave their wives, children and responsibilities and tack on to crime or
pornography. But one ministry wants to bring the father back – back to the
cross.
Returning to 
the
Cross. This is set to launch a movement to help men reach men for Christ and
break the transgenerational curse of men handing down bitterness and inactivity
to their sons.
Men at the cross brings men together to grow
in a discipleship relationship. In the New
Testament, the Apostle Paul discipled a young man named Timothy. Paul
considered Timothy like a son as he personally trained him in faith and charged
him to teach others as well. The themed verse for Men at the Cross is 2 Timothy 2:2 “And the things you have heard me say in the
presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified
to teach others.”
Men at the Cross challenges men across the
nation to find their ‘Timothy’ and commit six months to teaching and discipling
him until he is ready to disciple another man. The heartbeat of Men at the
Cross it to ‘Love a man to Jesus until he is ready to love a man to Jesus,’ and
the goal is to reach every man around the world.
Out of demand from thousands of men, Joe
White founded Men at the Cross not as a competing men’s ministry but to meet
the need, help plug in more men to the local church, and help build men to be
Christ-like.
With the pervasion of crime, divorce and
pornography, White is hoping to tackle the root cause of it all –
fatherlessness. He described fatherlessness as men not having a ‘dad’ who can
teach them how to serve their wives, children, and church and who can mentor
them to follow Christ.
“We want to equip men so that every man
eventually will have a spiritual dad in his life who can train him in difficult
principles of living,” White said.
And it all begins at the cross.
“The cross is the greatest symbol of
meekness that there ever has been,” he noted. “It’s strength under control.
Christ humbled Himself – that is the picture of meekness. There is nothing
stronger and more humble than God on the cross.”
It’s a struggle for many men, who have grown
up with a ‘macho attitude’ and have been taught to overpower - not to embrace
the cross. But White says the beauty of the cross is “when a man realizes there
is strength that washes feet, that says ‘how can I serve you, will you forgive
me, I made a mistake.’” Men at the Cross are “men who are willing to lead in a
different way. Men who are willing to lead by serving,” White says.
This weekend will include passionate worship,
dynamic teaching and life changing discipleship. For more information, visit
www.menatthecross.org.
