We’re Going Anyway.

I have spent enough of my life waiting for conditions to be right.

Enough money.

Enough time.

Enough certainty.

Enough people.

There is always some reason to wait.

So I have made the decision.

We’re going anyway.

If this fundraiser ends tonight exactly where it sits, I am grateful.

If another few people give, I am grateful.

Either way, tomorrow morning the Bible will still be open on my desk.

There will still be marriages in trouble.

There will still be fathers who don’t know how to answer their children.

There will still be men sitting in church who know enough Christianity to recognize the words but not enough Scripture to know whether what they are hearing is true.

And there will still be a world outside that door with absolutely no hesitation about telling your family what to believe.

So we are going to do what we can with what we have.

But before I close this fundraiser, I want to tell you why.

1. Because somebody still has to tell Christians to open the Book.

This sounds almost embarrassingly simple.

Read it.

Not a book about the Bible.

Not a tweet about the Bible.

Not a clip of somebody explaining what somebody else says the Bible means.

Open the thing.

Read the chapter.

Read the verses before it.

Read the verses after it.

Check me.

That has been one of the convictions behind Biblical Man from the beginning.

I don’t want you dependent on me.

I want you dangerous with an open Bible.

I want a father or mother to be able to sit at their kitchen table with their children and say:

Here is what God said.

And then show them.

2. Because the world is already discipling your children.

Nobody is waiting for your permission.

The phone isn’t waiting.

The school isn’t waiting.

The algorithm isn’t waiting.

The entertainment industry isn’t waiting.

The people who believe your understanding of marriage, sex, manhood, womanhood, family, authority, and even human nature is backward are certainly not waiting.

They understand something many Christians have forgotten:

Someone will teach your children what the world means.

The only question is who.

You can complain about the culture.

Or you can build a household strong enough to survive it.

That work begins long before the battle reaches your front door.

3. Because a man cannot defend convictions he does not possess.

Look at the new Biblical Man banner.

One man.

One sword.

An army coming toward him.

The important part isn’t the army.

It is the sword.

A Christian who doesn’t know Scripture can have all the courage in the world and still be unarmed.

He can be angry.

He can be political.

He can have opinions about everything happening in the country.

He can listen to three hours of podcasts every day.

And when his daughter looks across the dinner table and asks,

“Dad, why do we believe this?”

he has nothing.

That is the moment I care about.

Not winning arguments with strangers.

Being able to answer the people God actually put in your house.

Know your Bible. Have an answer.

4. Because I want to put weapons in your hands, not products on your shelf.

That is why we made the 100 Questions Guide.

One hundred questions Christians ought to be able to answer.

Questions about Scripture.

Marriage.

Men.

Women.

Children.

Culture.

The things that eventually walk through your front door whether you’re ready for them or not.

I’m giving the questions away.

Use them at breakfast.

Use them with your wife.

Use them with your teenagers.

Take one every night at dinner and see whether your household can answer it.

And for anyone who gives $25 or more to this fundraiser, I’m including the accompanying Answer Guide.

Not because I want another product to sell you.

Because if you help put bricks into this thing, I want to put something useful back into your hands.

5. Because followers are not the same thing as builders.

There are tens of thousands of you here now.

That number still surprises me sometimes.

But numbers on a screen do not build anything by themselves.

A movement has spectators.

It also has builders.

Most people reading this will never give Biblical Man a dollar.

That’s fine.

Some can’t.

Some shouldn’t.

Some are brand new and don’t know whether they trust me yet.

Check me first.

But there is another man reading this who has been here awhile.

You’ve read the essays.

You’ve downloaded the guides.

You’ve sent something I wrote to your wife.

You’ve argued with me.

You’ve checked the verses.

Maybe something here helped you have a conversation with your son you had been avoiding.

Maybe it got you back into a Bible that had been gathering dust.

I’m talking to you now.

If this work ought to exist, help me keep building it.

6. Because opportunity does not care whether you’re ready.

There are things opening in front of Biblical Man that I want to pursue.

Things we can build.

People we can reach.

Resources we can put into homes.

But there is a strange habit among Christians of pretending that worthwhile work somehow stops costing money because it is ministry.

It doesn’t.

Servers cost money.

Software costs money.

Design costs money.

Travel costs money.

Production costs money.

Time costs money.

And eventually you discover that good intentions are a terrible currency.

So I asked for help.

I would rather ask plainly than manufacture some grand story about how everything is fine.

There is work in front of us.

I want to do it.

This fundraiser determines how much of it we can do right now.

7. Because I already decided what happens if we don’t raise another dollar.

We continue.

That matters to me.

I don’t want anybody giving because he or she thinks Biblical Man disappears tomorrow without them.

That isn’t the deal.

I’m not holding the work hostage.

I’m not threatening to turn the lights off.

I’m telling you what I intend to do.

We are going anyway.

We will use what came in.

We will cut what needs cutting.

We will build what we can afford to build.

I will keep writing.

I will keep answering.

I will keep opening the Book.

I will keep telling men to take responsibility for the households God entrusted to them.

And if we have to do it smaller, we do it smaller.

If we have to do it slower, we do it slower.

But we do it.

Then I look at that new banner.

There is a man standing in the mud.

There is an army in front of him.

There are enough banners on the other side to blot out the horizon.

And I realized something.

The image isn’t really about being outnumbered.

Christians have been outnumbered before.

Truth has been unpopular before.

Christians have stood in considerably darker places than ours with considerably less than we have.

The question isn’t whether the army is large.

The question is whether the man stands.

And there is another question.

Does he have to stand alone?

That’s the last thing I’m asking you tonight.

If Biblical Man has helped you…

If it has put you back in Scripture…

If something here strengthened your marriage…

If it helped you answer your child…

If you believe Christian men need something more substantial than another feed full of outrage…

If you want fathers opening Bibles in their homes and children growing up knowing that their father actually knew what he believed…

Then come stand with us.

Give $5.

Give $25.

Give $100.

Give what you can without foolishness.

If you cannot give anything, take the free guide and use it.

I mean that.

Put it on your table.

Ask the questions.

Open the Bible.

Teach somebody.

That counts too.

But if you can help fund what comes next, tonight is the night.

Tomorrow, the fundraiser is over.

Tomorrow, we take whatever is here and get back to work.

Because the world is not waiting.

Neither are we.

We’re going anyway.

Know your Bible.

Have an answer.

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