"No More Christian Nice Guy!"

Captain Sensible writes: Wow - another present theme at the moment is the awful "niceness" in our churches. Jesus wasn't "nice"! Jesus didn't avoid conflict! Jesus wasn't the "meek and mild" stereotype of certain Christmas carols!
Rather, Jesus was/is good!
Our avoidance of conflict in the name of being "Christlike" is absurd!
Interesting interview here with Paul Coughlin. Not sure I can agree with all his points, but the main one is perfectly sound, and he also brings into it the subject of why men may feel uncomfortable in church.
So let's all stop being "nice" and start being good!
(NB - Just heard this line in the intervew: "A single woman I know says that her and her girlfriends believe the ideal man to date is one who has only been in the church for two years - that way he still has some masculinity about him!" Ouch!)