As much as it may distress us, our boys are future men. Unbelief cannot look past surfaces. Unbelief squashes. But faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. “And this is how to do it better next time.” As we look to Scripture for patterns of masculinity for our sons, we find them manifested perfectly in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one who set the ultimate pattern for friendship, four courage, for faithfulness, and for integrity.