A good man is hard to find at church

The Baptist Standard ^ | August 14, 2008 | Lee Ann Marcel

[Clemenza]

Usually, when there are more women than men, it attracts men!

Why do you think bars have "ladies night." Maybe churches should advertise the skewed sex ratio.

Most Christian churches seem to be geared towards women. Men don't want to clap, sing, and listen to lectures about the "meek and mild." We'd rather be golfing, watching football or doing a home project than have to put up with such pablum.

[Clemenza]

At least where I live, women, religious or not, DO NOT hide their liberalism (it is an asset around here).

[Clemenza]

Go to a Catholic church, we don’t jump up and down.

Yes, but you have monotone readers, limp-wristed "priests" who preface their cut and paste sermons with "my dear brothers and sisters." Don't get me started on the awful music.

Of course, you have the Tridentine masses, which are a little better, but require knowledge of Latin. I used to attend a Melkite Church when I was a believer, which I preferred to both Novus Ordum or Tridentine.

[LukeL]

The problem is that the sermon is usually on a broad topic and contains boilerplate text along with musings about the Pastor's life and how his wife controls him and the cute things his children/grandchildren do.

If the sermon was more on the Bible itself instead of a broad topic like forgiveness or redemption or some other topic you could see on Oprah, more men would be drawn in.

For example I doubt you will find many pastors talking about the falling of Jericho, or the construction of the tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant, or about the history of the Temple Mount.

[stevio]

My dear Brother, Seriously, don't paint the Catholic Church with such a broad brush. Our priest is an extremely sincere and IMO Holy man. My wife went through RCIA and I got to know him pretty well. He's getting older and if he is replaced by a limp-wristed lib, we'll be gone. We're Christians first, Catholic second.

We have lay people doing the music so some is good and some.... not so good. But if it is done in praise, it's beautiful to God. Funny thing is, some Sundays I don't feel like going, but after I get there, I feel the Spirit within the church, it's a great thing. I thank God for the experience.

Digressing even more, when my wife went through RCIA I was her sponsor, the land the church was built on was farm land from another RCIA participant's grandparents. When he was a kid, his grandmother used to tell him that when she looked out over the land, she would she angels coming down from the sky and back up again. I love that story. It's never too late to come back, unless you die.