Offensive Christianity

Chase Davis has written a timely book for modern Christians. Few topics are in greater need of biblical recalibration than manhood. Davis does this by honestly diagnosing the crisis of masculinity that prevails in our culture and, too often, in our churches. But he goes on to offer biblical correctives that cast a vision for the kind of strong, virtuous men that our world and churches desperately need. Such men will be godly, bold, meek, and purposeful. In a era that has been increasingly feminized, such men will likely be regarded as scandalous. But the offensiveness of Christian masculinity is exactly the need of the hour. I pray that many will read this book and learn to encourage and celebrate that offense.

Chase understands if you save the men you save the family, and if you save the family you save a civilization. Chase also understands that men need a higher standard than just being 'based.' What's more important is what you're based in, and whom you're based in—hopefully Christ.

Offensive Christianity is a necessary book for our moment. Chase Davis names what many Christian men feel but have not been allowed to say: the crisis of our age is the hollowing-out of men through a therapeutic, feminized Christianity incapable of sustaining families, churches, or civilizations (which is truly civilizational suicide). With clarity and conviction, Davis calls men back to embodied authority, discipline, and courage rightly ordered under Christ. This is not a call to recklessness, but to strength governed by virtue and exercised for the glory of God and the good of others. Davis insists that Christianity is not merely believed but lived in work, households, and public responsibility. In an age that despises hierarchy and male responsibility, Offensive Christianity reminds us that Christ is King, that men were created to take ground under His lordship, and that the future depends on whether they will shoulder that calling. Read this book!

Today’s evangelical pastors are typically women of both sexes. They have traded swords for self-help, truth for therapy, and prophetic witness for polite applause. But we are in an hour of battle, and Chase’s book is a trumpet call to stand with our shoulders squared, our chests out, and our weapons in hand. Read it, and rise to it.

In Offensive Christianity, Chase Davis identifies the enemies of godly masculinity. But rather than despair, he calls men to seek masculine virtue and provides wisdom to that end. This is a great book to hand out to the men in your church.

Charlie Kirk harbored a burning desire to help what he called “the lost boys of the west.” Charlie is gone but the boys are still with us. With Offensive Christianity, pastor-theologian Chase Davis has taken up the torch to light the way for the forming of men in service to our Lord in a world that has told them to suppress their God-given strengths and denied the purposes for which they were created. Godless anti-male messages emerging from the Enlightenment, Friedrich Nietzsche, and feminists have been absorbed by our boys for generations, leaving them variously neutered, condemned, cast aside, and deprived of the Christ-honoring and community-serving glory they are destined to enjoy. Davis brings the teaching of scripture, the accumulated wisdom of the history of the church, and sound theological reflection to bear upon the disastrous effects the loss of a biblical vision of true manhood has delivered. Davis then points the way out of the wreckage left by the neglect, distortion, and hostility toward true manhood that reverberates through our families, culture, and nation. Offensive Christianity is a Christian manifesto for our times. There is no time to waste. Our boys need help now. The kingdom our Lord taught us to pray would come requires strong men who glory in providing for and protecting their families, communities, nation, and the world. What Charlie Kirk started, Chase Davis is carrying forward. Now we must join the fight for the formation of the men of God in our time.

Offensive Christianity is a bracing book, deploying forceful language to call out a range of offenses and offenders. Reading it, I breathed many an “Amen!” or an “Oh, my!”, but there were “Say what?!” moments as well. No problem: Davis welcomes, even encourages, debate among us brothers, and there’s good grist for that mill. As the title suggests, the book is engagingly provocative and helpful in directing men away from the lame “Christlikeness” of the “longhouse” toward “muscular Christianity” in its spiritual and physical manifestations.

Would you be willing to say something offensive to someone if it might save his life? I’m sure you’d say, “Of course, if it was the only way.” But are you sure? When was the last time you offended someone by sharing the gospel? Most people would have to admit, never. Chase wants you to get over yourself and he wants you to start offending people for all the right reasons. This book will get you started.

In an era where masculinity has been shamed, diminished, and mocked through everything from TV commercials to politi-speak and cultural agendas, Chase Davis give a bold call for an ascendant Biblical masculinity. Christian masculinity results in healthy families, churches, communities, and nations. One of the key understandings Christian men need to have is that an esteemed place for Christian men will not be an invitation. Rather, it will be an obedience, an obedience to God’s Word. The journey will require boldness, truth, and work. And, both the journey and the results will be the reward. This is why I’m thankful for Chase Davis and his book, Offensive Christianity: Restoring the Strength of Men in a Feminized Age.

Young men are struggling in a world that derides them at every turn, telling them that their very nature is toxic. These young men are getting plenty of bad advice, but Chase Davis offers a path towards masculine Christian virtue. Instead of telling the next generation to sit in the longhouse Davis lays out the need for leadership, honor, and brotherhood. While others are pushing young men towards nihilistic materialism or submissive resignation, Davis argues that true masculinity is found in asserting power in a virtuous manner for the glory of God.

Chase Davis puts men’s focus right where it needs to be, on their chief end—glorifying God and enjoying him forever. And he reminds us that God changes the heart, the inner man must be renewed, and not only the external actions. We are a body/soul unity. In a time when men are lost and tempted with many unhealthy and immoral responses to feminism, they need to be reminded of these basics. Chase provides this and I hope many benefit from his book.

Offensive Christianity promises to be a bracing read. This is not a defense of rude Christianity, but rather a recognition that offensive Christianity is the kind that has the ball and intends to do something with it.

Chase Davis recovers the honor-focused masculinity that shaped Western Civilization in its Christian form. Men today will be inspired to be the best versions of themselves as they find their strength and recover their virtue from the ruins of modern life.

As Chase Davis points out in this great book, so much of the church today has become a softened space, feminized in such a way that men find it insufferable. But far from offering a black pill of resignation to the current situation, Davis shows a positive vision for men and women about what masculinity can be in all of its biblical glory. Combining theological robustness with surgical societal insight, he offers a clear path forward as only a seasoned pastor can do. This is a must read for men and women who care about recovering sexed piety in a world gone mad. Whether you're a pastor, father, young man, wife, mother, or single woman, you will find this book to be a great resource for generations to come.

As a Christian warrior, I've confronted evil on multiple continents. This book confronted me. It's not comfortable. It's not safe. It demands you look at your sin with the same intensity you'd bring to an enemy combatant—and kill it without mercy. Offensive Christianity isn't a style choice. It's the only Christianity that's ever existed. The church just forgot. This book remembers.

Men were made to fight. Deep down, every man knows this. Christian men, once the most dangerous to evil, have had this discipled out of them by the evangellyfish Church in the West. Most of us are now wondering “what happened to the men?” Pastor Chase answers that question more beautifully than anyone I’ve read since C.S. Lewis and provides the solution as well. This is a must read for every Christian!

Davis's Offensive Christianity is an urgently needed reclamation of the true material and spiritual dimensions of manhood. He echoes Augustine's insistence that man is both body and soul, formed for dominion and glory. We find our eternal end in a heavenly city, but we also have a temporal end in the nasty here and now of politics. And it is that realm of the earthly city where this book is so deeply needed. In an era where empathy is elevated to an idol and male vigor is pathologized as brutality, this book restores the biblical architecture of strength: not as unchecked aggression, but as disciplined action in service to God and neighbor. By tracing the crisis from its cultural roots Davis equips Christian men to transcend the siren calls of comfort and safety and instead strive for glory. For educators, pastors, and laymen alike, it offers a blueprint for forming phalanxes of resilient faith, where strength is not toxic but teleological. Davis has penned a manifesto for the magnanimous Christian men of the future.

Christ’s last words in Matthew were a command for His followers to go on offense, and J. Chase Davis’s Offensive Christianity is a timely study of how to reinvigorate this principle in the twenty-first century. Modern Christianity often teaches that avoiding giving offense is a greater good than faithful service to God and His Word, which has led many Christians to become weak in our faith and to tolerate evil in our midst. Drawing on eternal truths rooted in Scripture, Davis shows how we are to constructively, wisely, and biblically return to a properly ordered Christian temperament in both our private and public lives.

Offensive Christianity drops a bomb on the longhouse. Our churches have become beta male factories. The feminization of public life has given us wokeness and HR departments. Men have been shamed into thinking their masculinity is toxic. Effeminacy has become the norm. Our culture treats boys like defective girls and squashes masculine ambition. Meanwhile, marriage rates and birth rates continue to crater. Older men are often clueless about the obstacles young men face in today’s world and young men are angry, but struggle to find a way forward in the midst of a culture that scapegoats them and accuses them of having privileges they’ve never actually experienced. Pastors are all too often complicit in the problem. The result of this war on masculinity is a culture at war with God’s creational design. Our culture is filled with weak, spineless men, lacking a sense of purpose or mission. Such men are easy to control. In this timely and compelling book, Chase Davis provides a way out of the misery. This work calls men to be what God made them to be and shows them the true glory of masculinity, revealed in the Ultimate Man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Young men and old men alike will find plenty in these pages to challenge them to grow into the kind of men God calls them to be, even without the culture’s permission. While many today will shriek in horror over Davis’s call for men to be holistically masculine and re-establish a true Christian patriarchy, our culture needs exactly these kinds of men. Charles Spurgeon once thundered, “Now is the hour for the man—where is the man for the hour?” Davis shows us how to be the man of the hour. Read this book. Implement its teaching. You won’t regret it. And you just might save civilization.

Through polemic, history, and exegesis, Chase Davis has issued a rousing call to arms, one that would have been obvious to men of prior centuries. Beneficiaries of our civilization are stubbornly insensitive to the type of men required to construct and maintain this blessing. The annals of history offend us now. Davis urges men to be offensive again and they must if they are to save their civilization. Reject effeminate cope—niceness, passivity, and complacency—and embrace your God-given nature unto order, conquest. Davis's message will offend many, even Christians. Of course, offending a culture that offends nature and nature's God is no offense at all. The toxin of masculinity is the only thing that will choke out the malaise harassing our civilization. Davis should be commended for injecting it back into our cultural bloodstream.

Civilizations rise and fall on the strength and virtue of men. It should come as no surprise, then, that the feminist and cultural revolution of the last 70 years in the West intentionally undermined, weakened, and belittled men in its quest to create a new egalitarian utopia. Against the rise of these "men without chests," Pastor Chase Davis offers a biblical and barbell-based antidote: Christian men must recover the will to exercise agency, assert godly authority, and take bold action to unapologetically lead in the home, church, and society. If that's labeled as "toxic," so be it. The age of the passive man must end, and as Pastor Davis explains, the time for the offensive Christian man has arrived. Offensive Christianity serves as a much-needed corrective to the volumes of generic "Christian leadership" books telling men that what Jesus really wants is docile "servant leaders." Throw away your Keller books and put this on your church bookshelf instead. The men in your congregation will be blessed.

As a pastor with a passion for discipling men, I know a lot of pastors and a lot of manly men. But there are few pastors who have a reputation for being a man’s man the way Chase Davis does. And that is why I am so excited about his new book on manhood. While this book is for all men and not just pastors, I believe Offensive Christianity has potential to reimagine what godly men look like. In the Pastoral Epistles, the biblical qualifications for being a pastor do not include handling a weapon or wrestling a man to the ground. Yet, as Epaphras wrestled in prayer, and Paul did battle with the beasts of Ephesus, and Timothy was called to wield the sword of the Word with patient skill, there is something deeply masculine, even violent, about pastoral ministry. Indeed, while pastors must be spiritually qualified to lead God’s flock, they must also be men of the sturdiest stock. And if that sounds offensive or out of place, I suspect it has more to do with the softness of the twenty-first century male, than anything found in Scripture. In a word, the man whom God uses is one who trembles at His Word. But that man must also make the darkness tremble, and that is what Chase Davis equips men to do. In our day, I can think of few pastors who combine a commitment to Scripture with a commitment to fight the good fight with masculine strength. Therefore, for men of all stripes, but especially for pastors, Offensive Christianity is a book you need to read, until its truth wrestles you to the ground.

This is the kind of book you wish didn’t have to be written. It is self-evidently true to any sane person that being a man is both spiritual and biological in nature, with distinct qualities from womanhood, and bound to its own distinct obligations and its own path toward a godly life. Nonetheless, our era of confusion requires us to speak candidly on these questions, even offensively, so these truths can once again be recovered. Offensive Christianity describes the crises and solutions to manhood boldly and plainly, exactly as they need to be stated, not so men can live in opposition to women, but in harmony with them. When my sons are old enough to read this book, I will gladly give them each a copy. But if society can get in line with the book’s lessons, perhaps by then I won’t need to.