Church of Children

A friend of mine posted a blog that he read about the feminization of the church. Now we have heard of the society at large being feminized, a lot of talk radio most notably Rush Limbaugh have talked about this topic frequently, but I have not heard a lot of commentary on the church being feminized. However, I concur with the evaluation about the church. I think this issue creates a twofold problem. First of all if the church is geared towards things that are important to women outside of women’s groups that church must choose to move away from things more masculine. That creates a leadership void that women step into and therefore created problems in how a church is supposed to be run. The second I believe to be intended consequences of this is men who are never challenged to become the men God wants them to become. Essentially we get a church filled with women acting like men and men acting like children. You might wonder why I said men act like children? Well, I don’t think a Christian man will totally take on feminine characteristics even if his wife is a type A take charge personality. Therefore I don’t think what we have is a total reversal of roles, although sometimes I wonder! Before I continue I don’t think the church’s issues are the fault of women taking over it is the fault of men not fulfilling their roles. (Another one of my disclaimers to make sure I am not misunderstood!) What I think happens is men find their worth apart from the roles in the home, church and the heavy lifting of ministry, and instead find them in their leisure time. How many guys have motorcycles, trucks, watch ESPN, go golfing, etc. I am not saying that these things are in and of themselves bad because I do all these things (except the golfing I just added that because I think other people do.) What I am saying is that a live filled with these things in an effort to hide from your wife, kids, or the hard work of what God is calling you to do is childlike. Let’s be honest hear all of these things are toys and entertainment and a live focused on those things is the life that you had when you were a child. It is repulsive to see a man with a ton of high priced toys that is afraid of his wife and a Bible that has never been taken off the shelf. It is just as bad however to see a man going to all of the programs at church and going through the motions but only his wife is really excited to be there. I must admit that I have been less then thrilled to go to men’s fellowships at churches. They really have turned into female chat sessions, we never DO anything we just talk about stuff. It is like stepping into an episode of the view that is masquerading as a deep men’s study. Look I am not saying that there is a bunch of heresy being preached everywhere (although you do have to be careful about that.) What I mean is that it is an inch deep and a mile wide, anybody tried to fish in a lake that is an inch deep, not much good is it. That has become the church to men, not much good but they go because there wife wants them to.