32 Tell-tale Signs You're A Man-Child


32 Tell-tale Signs You're A Man-Child

1 MIN READ ◦ DOUG GILES

Below are thirty-two tell-tale signs that you might be a Man-Child that righteous and rowdy, Godly women, will purposefully avoid.

  1. You’re nicer than Jesus.
  2. You’re a pouter.
  3. You’re addicted to fun and allergic to godly duty.
  4. You skip church for lame “reasons”.
  5. You sound like Britney Spears when you talk about serious issues.
  6. You’re a mama’s boy.
  7. You drink from a straw.
  8. You take way too many selfies.
  9. You are biblically illiterate.
  10. You’re an angry baby.
  11. You’re loaded down with debt.
  12. You avoid responsibility.
  13. You blame others for your sad life.
  14. You don’t lead courageously.
  15. You don’t serve others.
  16. You’re a pornoholic.
  17. You smoke weed and eat crap food.
  18. You don’t exercise regularly.
  19. You have a dead-fish handshake.
  20. You’re not a provider.
  21. You’re not a protector.
  22. You’re not a hunter.
  23. You’re not a hero.
  24. You’re politically correct.
  25. You run from difficult and right decisions.
  26. You live on social media.
  27. You have no idea what classical literature and music is.
  28. You follow the crowd.
  29. You’re scared to stand up for godly convictions.
  30. You don’t open doors for women and children.
  31. You go Dutch on dates or make the girl pay.
  32. You avoid strong men who hold you accountable for your actions.

If that laundry list of ignoble, non-masculine, traits just whupped your backside, don’t despair. Just repent and get busy morphing into the man God has hardwired you to be. Also, please forward this to every dude who might need a good kick in the pants today.

*The preceding was taken from Doug’s new #1 bestselling book, Lionhearted: Making Young Christian Males Rowdy Biblical Men. It's a great book for Men's groups.

Doug Giles is Pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Wimberley, TX, and is the founder of ClashDaily.com​

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Doug Giles is the host of The Doug Giles Podcast, the co-founder and co-host of the Warriors & Wildmen Podcast (1M+ downloads) and the man behind ClashDaily. com. In addition to driving ClashDaily.com (300M+ page views), Giles is the author of several #1 Amazon best- sellers. His book Psalms of War: Prayers That Literally Kick Ass (2021) spent 26 weeks at #1 on Amazon. In 2018, Giles was permanently banned from his two-mil- lion followers on Facebook.Doug is also an artist and a filmmaker, and his online gallery can be seen at DougGiles.Art. His first film, Biblical Badasses: A Raw Look at Christianity and Art, is available via DougGiles.Art.Doug’s writings have appeared in several other print and online news sources, including Townhall.com,The Washington Times,The Daily Caller, Fox Nation, Human Events, USA Today,The Wall Street Journal,The Washington Examiner, American Hunter Magazine, and ABC News.

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