Thursday, August 17, 2006

Response to Church Needs Dudes

Rhett Smith has a rebuttal for the Mark Driscoll video that I posted previously here.

But it just seems to me to continue to point fingers at what some see as the "feminizing" of the church, or "girlie love songs to God", etc. is a very oversimplistic view/or not a very helpful view of something that is much deeper. I guess I'm just wondering, do these 60% "chickafied church boys" that Driscoll talks about, and the 40% of dudes that are still, "sort of chicks" have to be convinced only to come to church if we start playing football games on the big screen during services, and hand out swords to them instead of bulletins...you get the point.

I agree. Young men aren't exactly coming in droves to church. I see this at my church and in the ministry I oversee. But is that because it's too feminine? And are the guys who are coming and who are pursuing Christ faithfully and serving, are they "chickafied?"

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