Your insights are extremely valuable. You have described the leadership of many congregations accurately. Those who stand for the truth are called troublemakers. Those who use scriptures that are uncomfortable to hear are removed from teaching and preaching. We need our men to grow into spiritual warriors at home and in the church. This will not happen on its own. We need to mentor males from a young age to develop manly spiritual attitudes and behaviors. We have to often allowed toxic feminism to influence our leaders at home and in the church. We are reaping the whirlwind as a result.
Kevin - please beware of "growing" one group. What we need is for the truth to be paramount. Some women do evil. Some men do evil. Some men & women pretend to be "spiritual warriors in their own home" while either actually doing nothing and using the image for social gain - or worse, actually doing evil pretending to be spiritual warriors. Beware of focusing on individual verses of the Bible, or focusing on one group/gender. Yes, I understand men need to be built back up after the generation of feminism. But please be aware that evil doers can even use your good intentions for bad things. The only thing an abuser cannot use easily is the truth - the whole truth, spoken again and again by everyone around them. That is what we need to do --- like the author above states, we must do the hard things - hard things are usually done individually and uniquely. As soon as you make it into group-efforts (in effect making it easier to do) then fakers easily join in and co-opt the effort. They especially easily co-opt the effort when it becomes about one or two Bible verses. Also, as the author said, groups quickly become about numbers instead of real faith. All of this has happened too many times to me.
Your insights are extremely valuable. You have described the leadership of many congregations accurately. Those who stand for the truth are called troublemakers. Those who use scriptures that are uncomfortable to hear are removed from teaching and preaching. We need our men to grow into spiritual warriors at home and in the church. This will not happen on its own. We need to mentor males from a young age to develop manly spiritual attitudes and behaviors. We have to often allowed toxic feminism to influence our leaders at home and in the church. We are reaping the whirlwind as a result.
Agreed on all points, well said.
Kevin - please beware of "growing" one group. What we need is for the truth to be paramount. Some women do evil. Some men do evil. Some men & women pretend to be "spiritual warriors in their own home" while either actually doing nothing and using the image for social gain - or worse, actually doing evil pretending to be spiritual warriors. Beware of focusing on individual verses of the Bible, or focusing on one group/gender. Yes, I understand men need to be built back up after the generation of feminism. But please be aware that evil doers can even use your good intentions for bad things. The only thing an abuser cannot use easily is the truth - the whole truth, spoken again and again by everyone around them. That is what we need to do --- like the author above states, we must do the hard things - hard things are usually done individually and uniquely. As soon as you make it into group-efforts (in effect making it easier to do) then fakers easily join in and co-opt the effort. They especially easily co-opt the effort when it becomes about one or two Bible verses. Also, as the author said, groups quickly become about numbers instead of real faith. All of this has happened too many times to me.