"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17
Who we are
The Intentional Man exists to call men to follow Christ, form men according to the character and standard of Christ, and send men to serve the vulnerable as an expression of love for Christ.
This is not a casual gathering. It is a brotherhood built on Scripture, accountability, and responsibility. We believe biblical manhood is not defined by culture, comfort, or status. It is defined by obedience to God, integrity in private, leadership in the home, and courage under pressure.
Throughout Scripture, we see men who failed through silence. Men who obeyed without applause. Men who trusted without clarity. Men who were refined through suffering. Their lives reveal a consistent truth. God forms strong men through responsibility, surrender, endurance, and faithfulness.
At The Intentional Man, we focus on:
Rejecting passivity
Strengthening spiritual leadership
Developing disciplined character
Building accountable brotherhood
Applying Scripture to real life
This group is for men who want to grow, not coast. Men who want truth, not comfort. Men who are willing to be sharpened.
If you are ready to take responsibility for your faith, your character, and your calling, you belong here.
Founders
Sammy Bencid · Founder
I grew up in a hard working home. My father was present. He modeled discipline, work ethic, and the weight of carrying a family. What was missing for a long time was the spiritual leadership only Christ provides. That changed when an attack on our family pushed my dad to bring us to church. Faith stopped being an idea and started becoming a foundation.
My father passed away when I was eighteen. That season became the catalyst for finding my identity in God. I was no longer the son in the house. I was the man of it. Becoming a spiritual leader, a provider, a protector, a brother, a son to a widow, and one day a husband and a father, was no longer theoretical. It was the calling on my life.
The verses that marked me are the verses this ministry is built on.
Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction.
That last one cut the deepest because my mother is a widow.
I played football through college. I know what it is to train, to compete, to be coached hard, and to keep showing up when you do not feel like it. Discipline is not the goal. Christ is the goal. Discipline is what carries you to Him.
What I see in the men around me is the same pattern repeating in home after home. Fatherlessness. Passivity. Addiction. Idolatry. Fornication. A generation of men told they do not matter, beginning to believe it.
The Intentional Man is my answer to that call.
Carmine Dàscoli · Co-founder
Carmine carries the same calling. He grew up in a home where his father left, and he knows firsthand both the cost of that absence and the grace that meets a man inside of it. He is a brother in Christ, a disciple maker, and a leader in this ministry. He was the first man I discipled, and the calling we share is the reason this ministry exists in the form it does.
He has lived as an athlete his whole life and serves as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. Discipline, brotherhood, and standing your ground when it costs you are not concepts to him. They are how he has lived. He brings that same standard to the men in this ministry. He does not let brothers stay where they are. He calls them up. This work would not be here without him.
Weekly Bible studies for men seeking disciplined faith, leadership, and responsibility before God
What we believe
We are a non-denominational ministry. We do not chase trends. We do not soften Scripture. We hold to what the Bible plainly teaches.
Scripture. The Bible is the divine Word of God. It is inspired, inerrant, infallible, and the final authority for what we believe and how we live. It is not a guidebook. It is not a self help volume. It is not a collection of good ideas. It is the truth.
2 Timothy 3:16–17 · Hebrews 4:12 · Isaiah 40:8
God. There is one God, eternally existing in three Persons. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Deuteronomy 6:4 · Matthew 28:19 · 2 Corinthians 13:14
Jesus Christ. Jesus is fully God and fully man. He lived a sinless life, died on the cross as the atoning sacrifice for sin, rose bodily on the third day, ascended to the Father, and reigns now as Lord. He is the standard of manhood and the only Savior of men.
John 1:1, 14 · 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 · Philippians 2:5–11 · Acts 4:12
The Holy Spirit. The Spirit indwells every believer, convicts of sin, empowers obedience, and continues to give gifts to the Church today. We do not believe these gifts ceased. We do believe they are to be exercised in order, in love, and under the authority of Scripture.
John 14:16–17 · John 16:8 · 1 Corinthians 12:4–11 · 1 Corinthians 14:40
Salvation. A man is saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Not by works. Not by religion. Not by family name. But faith without fruit is no faith at all. A man is known by his fruit. Genuine faith produces repentance, obedience, sanctification, and a life increasingly conformed to Christ.
Ephesians 2:8–9 · James 2:17 · Matthew 7:16–20 · Romans 8:29
Manhood. A man is made in the image of God. He is called to lead with humility, love sacrificially, provide faithfully, protect courageously, and walk humbly with his God. Marriage is the lifelong covenant between one man and one woman. The husband is the spiritual head of the home, modeled on Christ, who led by laying down His life. Fatherhood is a sacred trust. Sonship is the foundation under all of it.
Genesis 1:26–27 · 1 Corinthians 16:13 · Ephesians 5:25 · Ephesians 6:4 · Micah 6:8
Heaven and Hell. Both are real. Both are eternal. What a man does with Christ in this life determines where he spends the next.
John 14:1–3 · Matthew 25:31–46 · Revelation 21:1–4
The Return of Christ. Jesus Christ will return. Bodily, visibly, and in glory. He will judge the living and the dead and make all things new. We live ready.
Acts 1:11 · 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 · Revelation 22:12
The Mission. The man who has been found by Christ does not stay where he was found. He goes. He makes disciples. He feeds the hungry. He clothes the naked. He visits the widow and the orphan. He lays his life down for his brothers. This is not optional. This is the mark of a man who belongs to Christ.
Matthew 28:18–20 · Matthew 25:35–40 · James 1:27 · 1 John 3:16–18
What we reject
We name these clearly so no man wonders where we stand.
We reject the prosperity gospel. The teaching that Christ exists to make you rich, comfortable, or successful by the world's measure.
We reject soft on sin teaching. The idea that God's love means He overlooks what He has called evil. He does not.
We reject theological liberalism. The abandonment of biblical authority in favor of cultural opinion.
We reject feminism's redefinition of manhood and womanhood. The teaching that the roles God designed are oppressive rather than holy.
We reject the feminization of men. The cultural pressure that tells a man his strength, his leadership, his protection, and his convictions are liabilities to be neutralized rather than callings to be sanctified.
We do not reject the men inside these teachings. We reject the teachings, and we call the men out of them and into Christ.
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
Romans 12:2
If this sounds like the brotherhood you have been looking for, write to us. We will tell you when and where we meet next.
Reach out
If God is stirring something in you, write to us. We do not sell anything. We invite men into formation. Tell us where you are and what is on your mind. We will respond personally.