It seems well established that fewer men than women regularly attend church. I've recently watched several videos exploring this topic and it seems to boil down to churches having become too feminized. The video below from Jamie Bambrick goes over the three general reasons that men hate going to church.
He begins by noting that the decline of male attendance at church coincides with the birth of the industrial revolution starting about 200 years ago, forcing men to leave their homes (and home churches) to seek employment in cities. As men's attendance started to decline vis-a-vis the women, churches transformed to represent the female point of view: accepting and teaching that male interests are bad (sinful) and female interests are good (righteous).
He then jumps into the three reasons that men hate going to church:
First is that modern churches have disconnected from men. He points out the modern churches' over emphasis on emotions and emotional worship, particularly acceptance, comfort, reassurance and warmth, while ignoring other principles such as truth, duty, action and mission--all of which is alienating to men.
Second, modern churches force men into interacting with other men the way women interact and connect rather than over activities as men naturally tend to do. Basically, as he puts it, churches attempt to force men into what he terms directionless relationships with other men.
Third, he notes that modern churches teach a type of holiness that looks like weakness: a passive, weak thing instead of standing up for something. He notes that Christ spoke up boldly, and confronted the powerful elites in the Jewish society of his day.
VIDEO: "Three Reasons GUYS HATE Going To Most CHURCHES"
Jamie Bambrick (12 min.)
Mother's Day Sermon: "We must all cherish single mothers."
ReplyDeleteFather's Day Sermon: "We must not forget single mothers."
Or like the Man's Prayer from the Red Green Show: "I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess."
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