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Women seem to be more likely to attend church.

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Well before the dislocations of culturally approved feminism and homosexuality, the founder of Christianity had been domesticated into a strangely androgynous being in Christian devotional literature. Nearly everybody has had sufficient exposure to Sunday school art to be aware of the strange incongruity of the carpenter from Galilee – who must have had weathered skin and enlarged hands like others of his craft – being portrayed with womanly hair and skin, looking more like an advertisement for hair coloring treatments than an atavistic Jewish male.

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What is so sad is that most churches act as agents for this artificial world Satan has created.

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The way to quickly enslave a society is to indoctrinate the children into the system. 12 years of telling boys to "shut up, sit, down, and do what you are told" is sufficient to prepare men for lives in their job, church, and home.

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This feminization is not necessarily a bad thing. I am sure it is only transitional, as we move from a male dominated society towards equality.

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ORIGINAL: RJR_fan

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This feminization is not necessarily a bad thing. I am sure it is only transitional, as we move from a male dominated society towards equality.

Dude! Sorry to disappoint you, but the universe is hierarchical. Jesus does not resent His functional subordination to the Father in the economy of salvation, and godly wives delight in their diaconal roles in the family structure. The "equality" you seem to pine for is a satanic delusion, that resulted in rivers of blood spilled upon the earth in that most evil of centuries, the 20th.

People are different. Not equal in height, weight, intelligence, or gender. When we reflect that the duality of humanity reflects God's image, we can ask whose bright idea it is to try to confuse the differences. (pause to fan the acrid stench of brimstone out of the room ... )

Something about the interplay between male and female reveals mysteries concerning our Triune God.

And I have to admit -- the differences between me and my wife still keep me excited, after 30 years of marriage!

Fie upon equality! Let God be God, and let men be men, and let their wives rejoice in both of those facts!

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ORIGINAL: backrowbaptist
A layMAN's question
Have you faced this situation in your church? If so, how do you approach the problem (if you see it as a problem, that is)?
• The typical U.S. Congregation draws an adult crowd that’s 61% female, 39% male. This gender gap shows up in all age categories.
• On any given Sunday there are 13 million more adult women than men in America’s churches.
• This Sunday almost 25 percent of married, churchgoing women will worship without their husbands.
• Midweek activities often draw 70 to 80 percent female participants.
• As many as 90 percent of the boys who are being raised in church will abandon it by their 20th birthday. Many of these boys will never return.
• More than 90 percent of American men believe in God, and five out of six call themselves Christians. But only two out of six attend church on a given Sunday. The average man accepts the reality of Jesus Christ, but fails to see any value in going to church.
Full article - http://www.churchformen.com/allmen.php
It's worse in the UK- http://www.whychurch.org.uk/gendergap.php

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• The majority of church employees are women (except for ordained clergy, who are overwhelmingly male).

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Where are the Christian men? The manly ones, that is? Home schooling their kids, is where.

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I saw this trend happening years ago. I have a story. In the early '90's I was part of a large, dynamic career group at a large ev. church. Just about every meeting there was some kind of male-bashing comment(s) made by either the pastor or the women leaders in the group. I held my tounge, for the most part. Then came a two-part series on dating by a female psychologist. The first part was on what men want from women. the speaker took about 1/2 hour and did a pretty good job. The second part was what women expect from men. This took 1 1/2 hours! I could hold my tongue no longer. I raised my hand, pointed out the discrepency between the difference in time spent on expectations, and basically said this was the reason I didn't date women from that church. I also said that if the male bashing trend continued, they would lose a lot of men. Predictably, my comments were met with a large ammount of scorn, both during and after the meeting, from both men and women. But a funny thing happened. Five or so of the guys in the group came to me afterwards and thanked me for speaking up, that I was right on the money, and marveled that I had the courage to stand up. It was right then and there that I knew there was an attack on christian men by the enemy. So the lack of men in churches today does not surprise me.

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ORIGINAL: revbob4God

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I saw this trend happening years ago. I have a story. In the early '90's I was part of a large, dynamic career group at a large ev. church. Just about every meeting there was some kind of male-bashing comment(s) made by either the pastor or the women leaders in the group. I held my tounge, for the most part. Then came a two-part series on dating by a female psychologist. The first part was on what men want from women. the speaker took about 1/2 hour and did a pretty good job. The second part was what women expect from men. This took 1 1/2 hours! I could hold my tongue no longer. I raised my hand, pointed out the discrepency between the difference in time spent on expectations, and basically said this was the reason I didn't date women from that church. I also said that if the male bashing trend continued, they would lose a lot of men. Predictably, my comments were met with a large ammount of scorn, both during and after the meeting, from both men and women. But a funny thing happened. Five or so of the guys in the group came to me afterwards and thanked me for speaking up, that I was right on the money, and marveled that I had the courage to stand up. It was right then and there that I knew there was an attack on christian men by the enemy. So the lack of men in churches today does not surprise me.

Son, I applaud your courage, but wonder how you survived, steering into a hornet's nest like that.

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• The typical U.S. Congregation draws an adult crowd that’s 61% female, 39% male. This gender gap shows up in all age categories.
• On any given Sunday there are 13 million more adult women than men in America’s churches.
• This Sunday almost 25 percent of married, churchgoing women will worship without their husbands.
• Midweek activities often draw 70 to 80 percent female participants.
• More than 90 percent of American men believe in God, and five out of six call themselves Christians. But only two out of six attend church on a given Sunday. The average man accepts the reality of Jesus Christ, but fails to see any value in going to church.

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• As many as 90 percent of the boys who are being raised in church will abandon it by their 20th birthday. Many of these boys will never return.

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• The majority of church employees are women (except for ordained clergy, who are overwhelmingly male).

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The way to quickly enslave a society is to indoctrinate the children into the system. 12 years of telling boys to "shut up, sit, down, and do what you are told" is sufficient to prepare men for lives in their job, church, and home.

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ORIGINAL: stellaluna


Yes, because the men choose not to go. Doesn't matter why; they still choose not to go.

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Their families of origin, society, public school, the feminist movement or any other outside influence may affect a man's thinking, but it is his responsibility as a believer to renew his mind to the Word of God.