A lot of men get out of the habit of worship when they’re young and single because the teaching about sexual abstinence outside of marriage is too hard for them to accept. When they get married and have kids, yes, maybe then they’ll go back. But maybe not. The years have passed and they’re out of the habit. It’s hard to get back into that state of submittedness, unless there’s a real wake-up call, or unless the preacher is really, really anointed and knows how to touch hard hearts.
My church is evangelical presbyterian. Best I can tell, we are about 50-50 in the gender ratio. Straight uncompromising gospel every Sunday. Membership is booming.
Liberals are welcome there, but I haven’t met one yet.
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Men do not put up with other men telling them how to worship.
A large portion of men in the industrialized world are no longer men.
Look to the developing world, where Christianity is rising. Those men there are men.
Churches which have many ministries have high retention rates for males. My own is luke that and it is very successful in keeping men attending and growin in His word.
It is also the only church I have ever attended in which discussions of guns and hunting are quite acceptabe and common.
I love my church and each week I Can’t wait to get there t lead worship in the choir.
deception does not draw ‘all men’ unto itself.
I don’t know what it’s like with churches, but in non-orthodox synagogues, more and more women are “in charge,” even if the actual rabbi is a man. And the more women who run things, the less men feel like being involved, or that they belong. This is totally sexist but when men are involved in the congregational hierarchy, other men gravitate more. Worship and community should not be completely run by women.
Some of my earliest memories are of siting in church, wishing it was over. Some things never change.
And this is a recent phenomenon of the past 100 or so years.
If the curch will support ministries that involve doing things that men are interested in, they will come of their own accord and stay.
I went to a church in town and found Jesus. The second thing that happened was that I joined the choir the next wednesday. About 45 minutes into the choir practice a guy whom I did not know leaned back and asked me whether I would like to do some construction for the Christmas show. I jumped at it and spent a large amount of time over the next three months making stuff for the show, big stuff. The friends I made in the first three months are some the best buddies I have ever had.
I have also been a shooting instructor for a Bible study. Sound a bit different? Our church honors the role of men and supports their interests in Serving Jesus.
I stopped going when the church leadership (who are men) where the people I would not truth with my life.
These men need to read the Bible and find out who and why Christ selected apostles and disciples.
Men are the mainstay of any church. Please pray for them and encourage them to follow after the example of Christ, the apostlels and the first 72 disciples.
As an Orthodox Christian, I always find these sort of articles quite interesting but wholly unrelated to my own Church experiences. A “big change” in the Divine Liturgy means that a Litany can be said in English instead of Greek or Slavonic. Men still run the Liturgy, read the gospel, and only clergymen distribute the Eucharist.
And I prefer our Troparian which often recall a Saint who suffered greatly at the hands of the Pagans but remained a witness for Christ. Nothing “touchy-feely” about it, just a reminder of the sort of challenges that others have taken up before you.