Being a Man

Oct 05, 2007

"Women go to church; men go to football games. Laymen attend church activities because a wife, mother, or girlfriend has pressured them...If a man goes to church, he goes because a woman has wheedled him into what he would normally consider unmanly behavior. But if he goes voluntarily, he suffers suspicions about his masculinity...A devastating criticism of Christianity is many men see it not only as irrelevant, but as effeminate...As one man put it, ‘life is a football game, with men fighting it out on the gridiron, while the minister is up in the grandstands, explaining it to the ladies.'"

                                                                                                             -Leon Podles

God created us as man and woman, male and female for a reason.  This was no mistake.  God could have created us as multiplying cells that are asexual and self-replicate.  But instead He desires to show us more of Himself by creating us as male and female.  It begs the question "why?"  Wouldn't it be safer to just create us as asexual beings with no distinction or difference?  This is what our culture wants, it wants no distinction or difference between the two as we push an androgynous being that it more akin to "Pat" from Saturday Night Live than the man and woman God made in the Garden for His glory.

Come out this Sunday night at SDSU as we dive into a 6 week study on Being a Man, Being a Woman, Being a Husband, Being a Wife, The Common Struggles of Men, The Common Struggles of Women.  7:00 PM @SDSU.