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Why Men Hate Going to Church
9 Marks ^ | Mar 2010 | Jamie Dunlop

Posted on 08/03/2020 1:11:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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1 posted on 08/03/2020 1:11:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Praying is one of the most masculine things you can do IMO.
Had a Dad who did, so maybe that’s it.


2 posted on 08/03/2020 1:13:20 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Is this supposed to be a joke?


3 posted on 08/03/2020 1:15:19 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The role of the church is not to inspire men to (earthly) greatness, its to inspire men to salvation.


4 posted on 08/03/2020 1:17:07 PM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Another pile-o-crap!!


5 posted on 08/03/2020 1:17:27 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I think this has been recyceled through the years. I’ve seen it a number of times before.


6 posted on 08/03/2020 1:17:39 PM PDT by del griffith
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Genesis 3:16b


7 posted on 08/03/2020 1:18:05 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When we look to government to solve our problems, our "rights" become reduced to "privileges".)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The feminization of too many American churches has everything to do with it.

Starting with, of course, the unbiblical practice of women pastors and ministers.

“let the women keep silent in the churches” I Cor. 14:34


8 posted on 08/03/2020 1:18:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Many men don’t go to church because they have a rebellious ‘I’m in charge of my life. You can’t tell me what to do’ spirit. They are unwilling to sacrifice their weekend plans to attend a service, no less volunteer.


9 posted on 08/03/2020 1:19:50 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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Today's churches have little to no philosophical grounding. Men want to know "why" - and churches today answer in words only women hear and respond to: "Because Jesus loves us soooo much!"

Well, OK...but why? :)

Then the music starts and the lyrics sound like thirteen-year-old girls in their bedroom talking about the cute boy Jesus down the street. I seem to remember hymns - where did they all go?

My stepson is a pastor trying to reinvigorate an older, dying church by appealing to new, younger members. He is a great speaker and people come just to hear him. But I struggle to make any theological/philosophical sense out of his sermons, which sometimes offer good advice but on a Dr. Phil level.

10 posted on 08/03/2020 1:20:55 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Women have it too.


11 posted on 08/03/2020 1:21:09 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Wrong reason to go but:

Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolk standin’ in line
I said they come to pray to the Lord
With my little girl, looks so fine


12 posted on 08/03/2020 1:22:49 PM PDT by rey
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I have the book and I mostly agree with it. Plus, having to dress up and wear a necktie makes it seem like another day at the office.

My ideal church would meet outdoors on a mountain top or by a babbling brook full of bass, tout and/or catfish.

It would be about 80% music and 20% sermonizing and last about half an hour. Sort of like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir program Music and the Spoken Word. I always come away from that program feeling uplifted and they don't pass a collection plate. They just need to move the venue outdoors. But there is enough outdoor scenery on the program to give me the general feel.

13 posted on 08/03/2020 1:23:57 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Because the service has gone to Hell in a hand basket?


14 posted on 08/03/2020 1:24:41 PM PDT by moovova
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I meet with men from various churches and some non-churched men to discuss walking the Christian Walk. We’ve been doing this twice weekly for 20 years.


15 posted on 08/03/2020 1:25:48 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?my)
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To: rey

Hey, hey, what can you do?


16 posted on 08/03/2020 1:29:29 PM PDT by moovova
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Modern day churchianity has feminized Christianity just like the school system does.

Jesus was not a sunken chested, scrawny, wimp.

He was a carpenter, who was probably ripped from all the physical exercise, and who made a whip of cords and drove the money changers out of the Temple on two occasions. He’s the man’s man who faced the cross, KNOWING ahead of time what He would be going through, and did it anyways.

He’s the God of Scripture who is know as a *Man of War*.

We have to get over the *let people walk all over you* version of Christianity based on a large part on a misreading of Jesus’ admonition to turn the other cheek.

I don’t blame men for not wanting to be part of church when church has become something that expects them to check their masculinity at the door.


17 posted on 08/03/2020 1:29:40 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I could do without the loud rock concert atmosphere.

I’ll be happy with two hours of fire and brimstone sermons.


18 posted on 08/03/2020 1:30:09 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Someone is going to the wrong church...


19 posted on 08/03/2020 1:30:10 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Hogwash.

I’m a high achiever (attorney), alpha male, risk takers, and visionary. Jesus love for me means a whole lot.

These people think the 12 aposltes were a bunch of wimps? Except for maybe one, they all died so as not to deny that Name That Is Above All Names. The Apostle John, “the Son of Thunder” was “the Disciple who Jesus loved” and leaned on his chest at suppertime. This was not a wimp or a fag but a man’s man who embraced the love of God in Christ.

This is a bunch of misdirected nonsense. Real grown-up masculinity is strong but also loves.

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I put away childish things...and now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.”
1 Cor. 13:11,13.


20 posted on 08/03/2020 1:31:05 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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