53 Quotes From The Tony Evans Film Kingdom Men Rising: No More Excuses

The greatest challenge facing our country is not economic, racial, political or global warming.  It is the erosion of men taking the mantle of Biblical manhood.  Tonight I had the privilege of seeing an advanced copy of the upcoming film Kingdom Men Rising: No More Excuses which addressed this issue in a loving but straightforward manner.

Produced by Tony Evans Films, this documentary features many well-known Christian men addressing the topics of race, marriage, parenting, accountability, and mentorship.  This will be in theaters for only two days, April 29-30.  I cannot recommend enough every church takes their men to see this and begin discussion and discipleship groups afterwards.

The following are 53 Leadership Lessons and Quotes from Kingdom Men Rising: No More Excuses.  All quotes are from Pastor Evans unless otherwise noted.

1. It can be rough changing people who don’t want to be changed.
2. It’s hard to man-up if you cannot even stand up.
3. My father would always remind me God is in control.
4. My father was always reminding me I was the son of a King.  I was a King’s kid.
5. Because of my spiritual influence, I could not limit myself to the reality I saw.
6. My father laid the foundation of my faith and spiritual development… A foundation of responsibility… He would do whatever it took to take care of our family.
7. You gave me a hand-up but it also came with responsibility.
8. There are so many young men today who don’t see hope…  It is so important to have men who offer hope and don’t take away responsibility.
9. You’ve got all these kids with no fathers at home.
10. My father’s commitment not to give up… astounds me.
11. I don’t know how the culture can get better when the church can’t get along… It’s not a skin problem.  It’s a sin problem.
12. We own the responsibility of calling a culture in decline, calling the men back.
13. You know you’re lame when everyone else has to take care of you because you can’t take care of yourself.
14. Discipleship can be formal but it can also be informal.
15. What we have missing is discipleship and exchanged it for church membership.
16. A man can find an excuse for not doing what he was created to be.
17. You can be transformed as a man and be used to transform boys into men.
18. Who’s sweating?  You can always tell the guys who are working and who aren’t. – Jon Kitna
19. You + God = Enough – Kitna
20. The NFL affords you to stay a boy forever.  I wanted to lead men. – Kitna
21. Men need to learn to be a man, a biblical man. – Kitna
22. Is masculinity muscle?… That’s not how Christ defined masculinity. – Troy Vincent
23. We have a cultural picture of a man as being the toughest guy in the room, of being the John Wayne-type of man and I don’t think Christ was like that.  He was not a wimp… He was the toughest guy in the room.  He just went about it in a different way. – Tony Dungy
24. Lameness can set in as an addiction.
25. We need Kingdom Men Rising because we’ve got Kingdom men missing.
26. You can be a male and not a man.  Malehood has to do with your biological gender.  Manhood has to do with submission to your divine authority.
27. The culture has their own ideas of what sex is. – Lecrae
28. When you don’t feel spiritually alive you are left with nothing but your senses. – Lecrae
29. The culture has made sex an idol and it is sucking men in by the droves.
30. Men have to have safe places to fall. – Kirk Franklin
31. The pattern in my life is God always brings things to me. – Franklin
32. This life is a spiritual battle. – Dungy
33. A man has to accept culture will no longer define him…  God will define him and everyone else has to adjust…  You will bring your faith into the culture and not be defined by the culture.
34. God is in control and worthy of our praise. – Jonathan Pitts on the death of his wife
35. When I had my babies I couldn’t do anything but worship God.  And when I lost my wife I couldn’t do anything but worship God. – Pitts
36. We were sharing a common faith in a common Savior during a time of crisis.
37. Eternity is bigger than time and it allows you to operate in time much better.
38. One of the things missing today is the blessing… This is where the father spoke blessings into the son.
39. Speaking the blessings cannot be delegated to the wife.
40. The biggest problem in our culture going astray is our family structure…  Boys especially not growing up in a dual-parent home. – Dungy
41. My parents were married over 45 years. – Dungy
42. Life’s about focus.  Life’s about structure.  Life’s about accountability. – Vincent
43. God doesn’t have grandkids. – Anthony Evans
44. Anytime I’m on a stage I think of my father and my grandfather. – Anthony
45. There is a tenacity my father has.  There is a consistency my father has and that has always affected me incredibly. – Priscilla Shirer
46. It starts with presence… and realizing what’s going on in their lives. – Pitts on discipling their children
47. God is not your earthly father.  God wants to be the father your father couldn’t be. – Lacrae
48. Forgiving is seeing the wounds and loving you in spite of it. – Lacrae
49. You can have sorrow and joy at the same time…  God has taken a lot of sorrow and turned it into joy. – Pitts
50. Being a Kingdom man doesn’t mean you’re a king.  Being a Kingdom man really means you submit to the King who made you a man… When you understand submission you can follow the greatest leader of all-time.
51. No Christian man has an excuse to not follow Jesus Christ. – Kitna
52. The main thing is that God matters more than anything else.
53. I don’t have a lot of time for whining… Because when I bring Jesus Christ into the equation, I’ve changed the story.

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