Man Up
Nov 5, 2009 Print This Post
I was telling my wife a story yesterday about a guy I was talking with and she said, “he needs to be a man!”
Earlier this week, I walked by a crew from our Welcome Team who were talking about the free stuff we give new people at Riv. They were looking at coffee mug options and one of them said, “we need to make sure this is manly enough…right Noel?”
Both of these moments made me smile. Why? Because men are missing from the church and when they do show up, they are (inadvertently) taught that being a man is a bad thing. Dare I say, the church has been sissified.
That’s why I loved this article I stumbled onto recently: What Men Need in a Church. Here’s a little excerpt:
A 2005 study, proved men need church. Since then not much has changed. In the study by Barna Research, 61% of men make no profession of faith in Jesus Christ whatsoever. That means that barely a third know who He is. What’s worse is that only one in seven of those men are plugged in to some type of discipleship program. And that would mean only one in eighteen men in America as a whole.
He then goes on and gives advice to churches on what men need to see in their church. Awesome stuff.
Oh, and on a related note, check out the marketing of this free small group book. Haven’t read it, but I’m going to. It actually looks like the kind of small group I would want to be in.
Oh, and on another related note, watch this:
ONLINE MANCAVE TRAILER: MANSWERS FOR LEADERSHIP AND LIFE from Deadly Viper on Vimeo.
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