Abdication of Responsibility
It's Time to Restore Men's Purpose in a Culture That Has Lost its Way
It’s October 1813. Five hundred thousand troops are camped along the plains and marshes of Saxony, Germany. Napoleon had spent a year rebuilding his army after the failed invasion of Russia in 1812. When the sun rose on the third day, cannons roared as Napoleon’s army strained to hold ground against the coalition forces of Russians, Prussians, Austrians and Swedes.
Smoke blanketed the battlefield. The thunder of muskets and artillery shook the Earth. Napoleon and his French forces were outnumbered by 150,000 soldiers.
While they were outnumbered, they were not broken. Their spirits were strong. They had a mission and a purpose. For God, family and country.
On the fourth day of the battle, the unthinkable happened. In the middle of the battle, Napoleon’s Saxon allies – men who had marched under his banner for years – emerged in the distance. The French looked on with relief, expecting the reinforcements to strengthen their battalion.
Then, the Saxons wheeled their cannons toward the French. They unleashed a storm of iron into the backs of their French comrades.
Panic ensued. Morale collapsed. Men fled, leaders scrambled and cohesion evaporated. The trumpets of retreat rang out.
The Battle of Nations turned in that moment. Napoleon’s downfall began that day, not because of the enemy but because those who should have stood with him abandoned their posts and betrayed the trust given to them.
This is a historical representation of what happens when men surrender their posts and abdicate their responsibilities. When they turn their backs on their God-given purposes and responsibilities, it ripples throughout the ranks of society. Families collapse, morale shatters and the next generation is lost. The children of those men become weeds among the wheat, secretly and unknowingly weakening a nation. The weakness grows from generation to generation.
Why is it that every generation thinks the next is worse off than the last? It’s because men leave it that way. They aren’t leading, even though all of us have these qualities innately within us.
That is the purpose of Mission 77 – to right the abdication of responsibility and to restore a society where too many men have abandoned their posts. They have abandoned their families and left women and children to fend for themselves. They’ve let those who were never meant to lead, lead everyone in the wrong direction.
They have given up on their goals and dreams. They’ve given up on their responsibility to make society better. They’ve relinquished their swords, hurt their fellow man and the rest of society.
All the problems in society today can be traced back to men abdicating their responsibilities to themselves, to their families and to their communities.
It’s time to get off the couch, put down the phone and the video game controller, go to the gym and pick up the weight you were created to bear.
It’s time to join the Mission. Mission 77.