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Quotes from the Introduction

As much as it may distress us, our boys are future men. (p9)

Boys take a lot of faith. This is good because the presence or absence of faith reveals whether or not we have a biblical doctrine of our future. Unbelief is always anchored in the present, while faith looks at that which is unseen. But even here we only get half the picture. Too often we think that faith only looks at unseen heavenly things, but this truncated approach is really the result of an incipient gnosticism*. In the Bible, faith includes the ability to see that which is unseen because it is still in the future. Abraham rejoiced to see the day of Christ, not the day when he, Abraham, would go to heaven. Faith conquers kingdoms, faith stops the mouths of lions, faith turns armies to flight, and faith brings boys up to a mature and godly masculinity. (p9)

*the heresy that, amongst other things, holds that matter is necessarily impure and holds that knowledge is supreme.