Deliberations 2016(3): #Men vs Women in Church

Is this an anomaly? Church leaders are usually men, but most churches are comprised primarily of women and children. Sooooo…. Is the church not benefited by the presence of men in the congregation? Should special efforts be made to evangelize them?

Consider the following excerpt from Pastor Nikita Thompson’s article in the Logos – a publication of the South Bahamas Conference of SDA – 11/14/2015:

            “A survey done a few years ago by “Focus on the Family Publishing shows:

·      If a child is the first person in the household to become a Christian, there is a 4% probability that everyone else in the household will follow.

·      If wife/mother is the first to accept Christ, there’s a 17% chance the rest of the household will follow.

·      But if the man—the husband, the father, God’s Point Man—is the first person in a home to become a Christian, there’s a 93% probability that the rest of the family will follow.

      When God's appointed, spiritual head of the household accepts and grows in Christ, his family is most likely to follow. If we can reach the men we will reach the family. As our world seems to be going from bad to worse, men desperately need, and are looking for, a ministry uniquely designed to reach them."

Hmmmm…… Much food for thought……

Can we continue to merely sit back and wring our hands while men are being lost? And sadly, so many of them are found in prisons—which is certainly not an equal opportunity institution— since men outnumber women here about 10 to 1.

What plans do we have in our churches and civic organizations to reach men spiritually, and then mobilize them towards evangelism in their families and in the wider community…..

An old African proverb reiterates the need for focusing on men: “When the root is strong, there is no need to fear the wind”.

[By the way - for those persons who thought they missed a post last week - not true. I'm trying to post fortnightly rather than weekly]