Why men hate church

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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?

Nope. Not quite what I mean. I told you I'm doing a terrible job at explaining what I'm trying to say. lol

In a house church... an elder reads a passage and speaks about it. Every man present can comment on the passage and even comment on the elder's words. I've seen older men turn a younger elder around on a topic with the younger elder thanking the older man for his wisdom, insight, and knowledge. It can be a powerful experience. That older man would typically have to keep his thoughts to himself and sit in that pew... clapping and getting behind the pastor... even if the pastor were wrong on a topic or needed it developed more fully. Men can contribute more to the discussion in a house church. And some house churches separate the men from the women for these sessions. Among the men it can be powerful, intellectually challenging, brutally honest, and even tender and broken. But with the ladies there... it only goes so deep and stops most of the time.