What men want
There’s a news article over at the website for the men’s magazine Sorted that says:
“Men who go to church regularly prefer “proper macho songs” and feel uncomfortable with hugging and sitting in circles discussing their feelings…”
The whole area of why men don’t go to church is one that I’m increasingly concerned about so I did a search to see what some of the other blog writers around are saying about it. I found only a handful of articles most of which seemed to fall into two categories: those who seemed to complain about women in ministry within the church, and those who got caught up on the ‘happy-clappy’ vs ‘traditional’ forms of worship, plus one who focussed on the fact that men do things other than blatant evangelism to bond! In each case it seems the same theme runs through many of the posts on those sites!
My question though is why people can’t see that men are in the minority in the majority of our congregations in the Western world? Why does it have to come down our personal agenda all the time when issues like this crop up instead of trying to work out what to really do about it? Maybe the solution is not necessarily in the things we value but in really change to something that isn’t necessarily comfortable for us!
