The Strenuous Life - for Lutherans

You may or may not have heard of Art of Manliness and its adult scouting program - The Strenuous Life. I have not tried it myself, but the idea is to get men back out into a more strenuous way of living in a badge-based community similar to the Boy Scouts and other historical programs of olden days. 

I wonder what this would look like for Lutherans - a scouting program particularly geared toward Lutheran men who want to take their faith more seriously and engage in some helpful practices. Mad Christianity's Sons of Solomon and Rome's Exodus 90 are both along this line of thinking.

Some inherent dangers would be the Pharisaical stratifying of Lutherans into tiers of manmade piety, and the justification-by-works approach to appeasing the conscience troubled by its lack of sincere piety. Some potential benefits would be the arming of men of God with his Word and prayer, equipping a generation of faithful leaders in the church for a life of spiritual warfare.

The 40-day challenge I'm doing works along the lines of a program of spiritual disciplines, and I can clearly see some benefits from it. But I don't know how well it would translate to a larger scale.

Perhaps a set of disciplines, badges, or status symbols would be more helpful on a smaller, local scale - a group of Christian brothers seeking to hold one another accountable and challenge one another in a shared spiritual discipline. Sons of Solomon does a good job of trying to focus things on a local level - but I'm looking for something a little more than that: something that has an initiation process, and challenges, badges, checkpoints, titles, etc. Many men find this kind of recognition and feeling of achievement through gang membership, team membership, or club membership. Wouldn't it be better to focus our energies (and yearning for group recognition and accomplishment) on the work that God has actually called us to do?

Again, I'm not sure what to make of it all, but I think there's an opportunity for positive influence in the lives of young Lutheran men, who want to prove themselves but don't yet have a way to do so.