Pilgrim Soldier

On Good Friday I went to a joint service of the 2 Riga corps and it was a great time of fellowship even though there were only about 35 or so. However, what really struck me was the almost total lack of men there. In fact there was only 6 of us!

I look around the rest of the Army, which has to be my reference point here in Latvia, and I see a similar pattern everywhere I go. In almost all our congregations men make up only a small minority! The only exception is in the corps that is most impoverished and they have a very transient congregation that moves on as the people start to improve their life conditions. Many of the other churches I have had some contact with are struggling with the same issue.

So why is this? What is it about the Church that leaves us struggling to attract men to faith? Why is that we seem to have become spectacularly unsuccessful at building strong male disciples? What are we going to do about it?