"Less than one per cent of the 26 million men in the UK attend church regularly"
Carl Beech, national director of Christian Vision for Men.
Captain Sensible writes: Please, please, please, do NOT be intimidated by your church leader! If he (or she - but I would hesitate to even recommend anyone staying in a church run by a woman!) insists on neglecting to outreach to men in favour of women's and children's ministries -- well, frankly they deserve to be sacked. And they certainly shouldn't be receiving any more of your tithes to further squander.
Captain Sensible writes: Please, please, please, do NOT be intimidated by your church leader! If he (or she - but I would hesitate to even recommend anyone staying in a church run by a woman!) insists on neglecting to outreach to men in favour of women's and children's ministries -- well, frankly they deserve to be sacked. And they certainly shouldn't be receiving any more of your tithes to further squander.
posted by Captain Sensible at 2:33 PM
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Random thought:
Since Christians are putting off marriage indefinitely (as people in the world do), and since we all (on this blog) agree this is a result of sin/selfishness/lies the devil tells, and that the consequences of this are deadly...
Why not rename the blog "the curse of singleness"?
I wonder...
Would referring to singleness as a "curse" be over-spiritualising it again?
Of course, a curse is a far more accurate description than calling it a "gift", but what exactly would we mean by calling it a curse?
I think singleness is more a predictable result of contemporary Christianity:
i) A lack of men, which makes even the single Christian men that are available passive/complacent
ii) No encouragement for singles to get married, and certainly no help in assisting singles in the process of finding a marriage partner
iii) Encouraging Christians to follow our culture, where singleness is growing exponentially, instead of the Bible where just being "single" is not validated as a lifestyle choice at all
iv) Falsly affirming a state that is "not good" and re-packaging it as a gift
So, I wonder if by calling it a curse, it again negates our own responsibility to a degree?
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