The Great Adventure: Questions Every Adventurer Must Face

Guiding Question: What if your life as a man could be more than responsibilities and routines—what if it could be a great adventure, full of purpose, meaning, and joy?

🧭 Key Takeaways:

• Responsibility Alone Will Drain You Robert Lewis warns that when a man's life becomes nothing more than duties—family, work, obligations—he becomes exhausted emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. Anger, sadness, or fear often creep in when adventure and passion are absent.

• Men Need More Than Survival—They Need Purpose Real manhood isn’t just about showing up; it's about showing up with vision. Men were never meant to just survive life but to live it with mission, balance, and joy.

• The Great Adventure = Purpose + Fit + Destiny Every man should strive to find a life that:

  • Aligns with a sense of calling (purpose),

  • Matches his personal design (fit),

  • Builds toward a meaningful impact (destiny).

• Three Core Adventures for Every Man Drawing from Genesis 1:28–30, Lewis outlines God's original commission to men as the basis for a threefold adventure:

  1. The Family Adventure – Engaging hands-on to shape a virtuous next generation.

  2. The Noble Cause Adventure – Fighting for something bigger than yourself that benefits others.

  3. The Man-Sized Adventure – Having fun, taking risks, and doing things that make you come alive.

• Self-Discovery is Critical in a World of Options In today's culture of endless career paths and distractions, men must become pioneers of their inner world. This means asking: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?

• Culture Offers Confusion; God Offers Clarity While modern culture defines men by performance, pleasure, or possessions, Scripture roots manhood in being:

  • Created by God – I am not random; I am a man made on purpose.

  • Commissioned by God – I am called to live fruitfully and with impact.

  • Accountable to God – I will one day answer to Him for how I lived.

• Your Job Should Serve Your Life, Not Define It Work is meant to be a means to the adventure—not the entirety of it. If your career is crushing your sense of family, passion, and mission, something’s off.

• To Find Life, You Must Risk Something Real adventure will always require courage—facing fears, asking hard questions, making bold choices, and sometimes breaking from the norm.

📖 Scripture References:

• Genesis 1:28–30 – “Be fruitful and multiply…subdue the earth…enjoy all I have given.” (The foundational mandate for manhood—reproduction, contribution, enjoyment.)

• Ecclesiastes 12:7 – “The body returns to the earth… the spirit returns to God who gave it.” (We are spiritual beings accountable to our Creator.)

• 2 Corinthians 5:10 – “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ…” (Each life is headed toward a divine evaluation.)

• 3 John 1:4 – “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” (A father’s greatest joy is seeing his legacy live on.)

• Deuteronomy 30:19 – “Choose life so that you may live…” (Life is a series of choices with eternal consequence.)