Man Maker Project: A Father's Guide to Initiating His Son into Manhood

Boys are born. Men are made.

Every boy carries a question deep in his heart: Am I a man? Most never get an answer. They're left to wander into manhood alone, hoping to figure it out, and too many grow into unfinished men who struggle with work, marriage, faith, and their own sons.

Counselor and men's ministry leader Chris Bruno has spent years listening to men's stories. Again and again, he found the same wound underneath: no father ever led them across the threshold. So when his own son began to grow up, Chris set out to do something different. With a small band of fathers, he built a yearlong rite of passage to call his boy into godly manhood.

Man Maker Project is the guide to building that passage for your own son. It's part story, part theology, and part practical plan, and it will ask as much of your heart as it does of his.

Inside, you'll discover:

• The four conditions a boy needs to become a man: a father's intention; separation from the feminine; risk, pain, and danger; and a father's blessing.
• Six marks of restorative manhood: courage, integrity, excellent action, kingdom focus, protective leadership, and purity.
• A complete yearlong plan with biblical stories, films, questions, and conversations, ending in a final test and a ceremony of blessing.
• Room for your own story, because you can only take your son as far as you've gone yourself.
• Discussion questions in every chapter for working through the book with other fathers.

With a foreword by Dr. Dan B. Allender, who calls it "a generation-changing book," Man Maker Project is for any father who wants to give his son what he may never have received himself.

Your son is waiting for his answer. You're the man to give it.