Why men hate church

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

So...men don't go to church because they can't share their feelings? Yet the same system also means women can't share either....

So men don't go because they want to share their feelings and women do go because they don't want to share their feelings?

What planet are YOU from?

If men are going to a house church so they can 'share their feelings' they are effeminate and so is that house church.

A proper biblical church will have men who go to 'speak in the gates' as it were, and be about the Kingdom's business. This means church discipline, doctrinal teaching and examination, etc, as well as the manifestation of spiritual gifts.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. (2 Tim 2:2)

Men are to be learning the teachings of Jesus, and how to transmit that knowledge to others.

Men are to be teachers, leaders, and examples. Some are to become deacons (ministers, servants of the church) and bishops (overseers, elders). Some are 'go forth' spreading the word through whatever gift God has given them.

The church is not supposed to be an 'event' 2 or 3 times a week where people do a sing-a-long, have an emotional catharsis, listen to a 'grand speech', dump money into a plate, and then go home back to their regularly scheduled lives.

Teaching, singing (the purpose of which is to teach and admonish), praying, exhorting one another, ministering to one another, etc should be the regular activity of the church.

Men will learn to be men, fathers, husbands, leaders. Women will learn to be mothers, wives, learning to guide the house. Children will learn to GROW UP into MEN and WOMEN.

No 'program', whether modern church or house church, is going to get it done. It takes a revamping of our entire paradigm and worldview concerning the purpose of mankind in this earth, the role of God's people in this world, the nature and character of God's Kingdom, the purpose and mission of the church, family, societal roles, etc etc etc.

A 'new heavens and a new earth', in a sense.