Samson Society - Friendship and Discipleship for Men

Friendship and Discipleship for Men

The Samson Society is a fellowship of Christian men who are serious about authenticity, community, humility and recovery - serious, but not grave.

Traveling Companions

Samson guys are traveling-companions on a great spiritual adventure, not grim pilgrims on a death march to personal holiness. We challenge each other daily to believe the incredible news that God actually knows us, loves us, and has restored us to himself. As we follow Christ together, we find our lives progressively interrupted by righteousness, peace and joy.

We are not a church. We are simply one extension of the church universal.

We are not an "accountability group." Instead of living our lives separately and reporting (or lying) about our progress, we try to live our lives together.

We are not a "men's group." Okay, so there are no women, but that doesn't make us a men's group, does it? Please. Most of us have had it up to here with men's groups.

We are not a 12-step group. Many of us attend 12-step groups and are grateful for them, but our addictions do not define us, and we do not segregate our membership by behavior.

We are not perfect. Not even close. We are broken individuals, but in our fractured fellowship we find a foretaste of God's approaching re-creation.

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Identity and dreaming(a little)

Two of us in our group have been talking about our identity as a group in the church. We meet in our church basement and are kinda undercover as far as being announced or listed in the weekly activites. We do let the mens group know who we are and that we are meeting next (after our mens group meets) just down the hall. Not many random takers yet but God has given us a great core group of about 10 guys.

I dont do well with dreaming but I'm getting better at it and if I'm in a conversation and s… Continue

Posted by Brother Rich on November 20, 2009 at 9:43am

hate the space I'm in

Guys, I hate the space that I'm in the past few days. (A certain church told me years ago that going to secular concerts and having a beer would lead to backsliding, and that you could have one foot on a banana peel and one foot on your way to hell without even knowing it). Ever since I had so much fun at that concert last week, my life has been downhill ever since. Cosmic karma? Well, I got behind on my classes, and have continued to be behind. I am slowly catching up, but the pace is becoming… Continue

Posted by David on November 20, 2009 at 2:22am

At my new home

so i've made it to my new home in Afganistan. i walked in to my plywood section of the area i'm going to live a there is a poster of a semi covered woman on a moter cycle. that had been left by the guy before me, and the battle was on. one side told me "it's ok just leave it up, it's not like she's naked." and i know the Lord was telling me "yes, but what are the lustful feelings that it sters up in your heart"? i strugle with lust and porn and the healing is difficult. but for the first time i… Continue

Posted by Grant Marzolf on November 19, 2009 at 11:13pm — 6 Comments