This is the latest book going around our church. The book’s message is very important because a genuine revival of the church will not occur unless the “Christian nice-guys” heed the message, forsake their spinelessness, and assume the challenge of adopting the authentic Christian masculinity. Good mission in my opinion. My main question for this book was; does it represent a good resource on Biblical masculinity?

It's a good read but it is not a work of biblical scholarship. There are no footnotes, no bibliography, and no references to or citations from the more advanced treatments already written on this topic years ago. Coughlin is a radio host which makes this book an easy and entertaining read which means, while bringing up an important topic, one only goes knee deep in the scope of its challenge. For instance, Coughlin fails to challenge the work/family dichotomy, which has characterized our economy since the early 19th century. Coughlin never even considers as an answer what was the norm prior to that time, namely the home-based business in which the man did his work at home with his wife as his administrative assistant and his children as his helpers. Bellah’s, 'Habits of the Heart', addresses this and shows how the modern conception of the father leaving the home to go to work led to the feminization of the family and church, which is the major factor which led to the demasculinzed nice guy.
(Take the Nice Guy Versus Good Guy test online.) I scored a: 'Good Guy is in your blood and will likely not go away until confronted.' The questions on this test shows some bias on what I believe to be a more secular worldly masculinity then biblical masculinity.

Schultz notes on Couglin-
'The authority of the father is also undermined by the modern practice of dating, yet Coughlin seems to blissfully unaware of that and of its promotion of premarital sexual contact and intercourse. He notes the attack upon dating but dismisses it without examining the works where these attacks are found, such as I Kissed Dating Goodbye, by Joshua Harris, one of the most thoughtful young men of our time, whose opposition to dating cannot be rightly construed as a wimpish retreatism, as Coughlin implies. This kind of surficial thinking is the book’s chief weakness.'

As a man, this book did not bring me to my sin by showing me what true greatness truly is, like other resources have. In fact this book encourages arrogance, pride and a bullying sinful attitude already inherent in the unregerate, sinfully, selfish man. Being manly, in coughlin's opinion seems to mean to not fear in commanding people what to do with a satiric edge, because.....'Jesus did it'. Question: how do men normally treat women? Ask the wives of such men and notice the fear these women live with, to answer that question.

Maybe Coughlin's next book could be, 'No More Christian Jerks' to help heal the damage the narrow-minded, foot in your throat picture 'No More Christian Nice Guys' shows. In addition, Coughlin's mentioning of Bill Hybels and other emerging church gurus slanted my full recommendation of this resource.

So while I appreciate its target enemy, spineless, mama's boy, evan-jellyfish christian men, I do believe other books address both the problem better as well as the solution in a much more Biblical and fuller light. Like:

Silence of Adam by Larry Crab
Reforming Marriage by Douglas Wilson
Federal Husband by Douglas Wilson
The Church Impotent by Leon Poddles
The Feminization of American Religion by Ann Douglas