Very interesting post from a guest contributer over at Jason Clark’s blog (always worth a read) asking what the church needs to do about the noticeable imbalance between the genders in todays church (there just aren’t that many blokes in churches).
I know that in my experience so much of the comments in the article ring true. We’re peddling a message (if you’ll excuse the crudity of the terminology) of how great it is to be in love with Jesus, and missing the call to action – we’ve lost the adventure that this Christian life is supposed to be. Which is perhaps why we’re seeing the opposite issue in the Emerging church arena (particularly in leadership) – the people who are most disillussioned by the way church is working at the moment, are the people who are getting out there and doing stuff.
Worth thinking about.
About half way down this post are my thoughts on that article.
Shameless plug, but it’s relevant!
…this is the link
Had to edit the comments into shape – someone needs to teach you how to write a link in HTML!
[...] Boys will be… wait, where’d they all go? references an article on men in church. Although that I think that the point does need to be put across, that perhaps the ‘everyone fall in love with Jesus/Jesus is your boyfriend’ business is definitely offputting to males, it’d be nice to acknowledge that it isn’t the worlds most thrilling idea to a lot of females. [...]
[...] Boys will be… wait, where’d they all go? references an article on men in church. Although that I think that the point does need to be put across, that perhaps the ‘everyone fall in love with Jesus/Jesus is your boyfriend’ business is definitely offputting to males, it’d be nice to acknowledge that it isn’t the worlds most thrilling idea to a lot of females. [...]