The GODMEN: Solution or Symptom?

David Dansker at The Newsbeats.com shares insight and concern regarding the The Godmen Conference. The organization was recently featured on ABC's Nightline. After reviewing Dansker's piece and visiting The Godmen website, the following observation is made:

It is difficult to criticize motivated, morally-minded men who assemble under the "church " banner. However, when we are assemble out of a response to a participant demographic report (60% women making up the church), we dive into the waves of pragmatism, and are driven by numbers. We then join the ranks of the metrics, under the "church" banner, appealing to the psychological needs of the audience.

Embracing testosterone and manhood may be appropriate in a fraternal organization. But our church family, the Bride of Christ, is not a fraternal organization. God demands the broken, contrite heart of men, not the puffing up and aggressiveness The Godmen seem to promte. There is nothing more masculine, nothing more feminine for that matter, than a broken vessel of a man or woman indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

Ecclesiastes 9: 14 describes a little city with a few men in it... 14 There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it. 15But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man. 16But I say
that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.

If we want to see more men in our church families, we must start with the men that are there. If the pastor and elders are faithful to The Word of God, then the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit will be their strength and strong tower. If the church family is really a New Testament Church family, the encouragement, fellowship and accountability will exist. All combine to nurture, grow and mature the Christian man and woman, through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. You won't have to go to a coliseum or join an organization to validate your manhood or the Christian walk.