Eric Metaxas‘ project here, in limning the notable lives of seven Christian men, is to hold up all seven as models of right behavior and commitment. He senses — well, I mean, how could he not? — that “young men especially need role models. If we can’t point to anyone in history or in our culture whom they should emulate, then they will emulate whomever … They will drift. They will lose out on the very reason they were brought into this world: to be great, to be heroes themselves … it is vital that we teach them who they are in God’s view, and it’s vital that we bring back a sense of the heroic.”
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