Nick Freitas

I'm going to be the one to make sure that my kids didn't go through that, that my grandkids don't go through that.

Gosh, the big issue with young men is they've spent the last two decades being told that they're garbage, that every instinct that they have to protect or provide is bad and toxic.

And then they've been starved for actual strong discipleship and mentorship.

And then a lot of the men that have been willing to give them mentorship

have not always had the best motives, in my opinion.

They might have been able to properly diagnose the problem, and they might have been able to give men advice on how to be stronger, how to be more capable, how to be more competent, but they didn't give them good advice on why you want to be those things.

Because if you're doing all those things for hedonistic end states, well, then the worst form of depression is not getting what you think you want.

The worst form of depression is getting it and realizing it leaves you unfulfilled.

Wow.

And so I think we need more men that are saying, look, you should be strong, you should be capable, and you shouldn't have had to go through the crap you did.

You were owed better from the men that came before you.

But the only way through this is through it.

You have to choose to be an honorable man.

You have to choose to be strong.

And the good news is this.

The reason why there's been such a concerted effort to convince young men that they're worthless and stupid, that they want you lazy and depressed, is not because you don't have power.

It's because you're incredibly powerful.

As young men go, so too will go the nation.

And so the fact that young men and increasingly large numbers are looking for, they're going back to the church, they're more conservative, they want to get married, they want to have families.

I know it doesn't seem like it right now, but young women are going to follow you into that.