Manliness of Christ – Getting Jesus Right in a Soft Age - Interview: Dale Partridge

The drift is real: a softer, sentimental Jesus has seeped into preaching, worship, and discipleship—and it's producing a church that feels more like therapy than an army. Dale Partridge argues this didn't happen overnight; emotionalism and post-war "weakness" reshaped what many Christians think is normal. The result is a Christ who comforts but rarely commands, and men who disengage because the Jesus presented to them feels domesticated.