Follow-Up on "Feminization of the Church"

This morning I came across this article from Doug Giles on TownHall about the feminization of the church. It dovetails nicely with my prior post on the feminizatoin of the church. Whereas I talked pretty much theoretically about the issue, Doug Giles gets down to the point of practical application of how to get men back in the church. Here is my favorite quote from the article - its as if he wrote this directly for me (notice the "Pastor Wayne" reference):

Put an end to preaching by cheesy, whiny, quiche eating, preening Nancy Boys ... right now! It freaks us meat eaters out. Get it? Hire a pastor who throws off a good John Wayne vibe instead of that Boy George feeling. Know what I mean? And cheer on “Pastor Wayne” to serve up the solid meat of the scripture … the stuff that prods the congregation to biblical maturity rather than prolonging their infancy.

I love it - I have been given a new phrase - from now on pastors who refuse to serve up the solid meat of the Scripture will be officially called "Nancy Boys."

Here are a few more of Doug's suggestions (paraphrased):

- Have the worship leader serve up weighty worship music, not the saccharine slush we have grown so accustomed to.
- Get rid of the Precious Moments figurines, decorate the church with "serious transcendant art works that stops us in our tracks."
- Lose the church's "I'm in therapy feel." Doug says, and I quote:

"Sure life’s hard, little Sally, and the sooner, we celebrate the struggle the quicker we will draw men back to our houses of worship."

-"If the Church wants to recover its losses, we’ve got to draw the knuckle draggers back to church. Masculine men are pretty easy. Toss in reason, competition, initiation, struggle, fun and a problem to spiritually throttle, and we’ll be there like stink on a monkey. Blow off, suppress, and spiritually emasculate the environment of these holy testicular necessities and your church, as far as men go, will be more empty than an Oktoberfest in Hialeah."

Thanks Doug, and a big hat tip and thanks to Dennis Laing for referring us to this piece on his blog.