Why Men Hate Church

 I am reading a book titled Why Men Hate Going To Church by David Murrow. This is an interesting book with some startling information taken from published sources on men and church attendance. I do not agree with everything in the book. And I can see that in the Prescott church men were valued and served and appreciated and honored.

The big issue that this book reveals has to do with why women feel at home in church while their sons and their husbands do not. This is a bigger issue than even this book can address. But it is an issue much older than the Feminist revolution or Women's Lib. It seems that since the first century AD church has catered to women and men have been ignored. This is thought provoking to say the least.

I may over time address some of the issues raised in this book and consider how our church in San Antonio rates.  We err more on what to do with young men who are not called to be pastors or missionaries. And our song service sees wives with their hands raised and their faces upturned while their husbands just stand there. This is a problem with the song service, not with the men.

Today's lesson is pretty clear. Men feel uncomfortable singing love songs to any man, even Jesus Christ. So they will not sing, or they will skip song service, or they will stay home. Stop letting women run our worship service and get rid of the emotion laden love songs and let men worship in Spirit and in truth.