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Great post Brother Paul. I think it is needful to recognize that men are made of a different cloth than women and need to be approached in a bit of a different way when attempting to inspire or mobilize them. Generally, girls begin talking at a much earlier age than boys; this indicates that women are more readily geared toward willful social interaction than men on a cooperative level. Boys are more rambunctious involved in structural activities and even learn social behavior from a competitive paradigm being driven by testosterone.
Bearing these things in mind, men need to be utilized not only in the position-holding activities in the church but as well in general activities in the church. When men feel a sense of being a viable part of something rather than a sideline on-looker they are more likely to open up in personal expression. Many times what we are seeing illustrated in male behavior in local church assemblies is not merely pride but a defense mechanism put up by someone who doesn't trust the landscape that he is standing on.
With many churches having a female-dominated environment some men see it, from a subconscious perspective, as being the woman's arena so just as a man going with his wife to the hair salon and shutting himself off from the rest of the room with a magazine or newspaper some men find it awkward at times to engage in corporate worship expressions.
Church leadership must clearly articulate that though there is spiritual equality between men and women there is still a distinction that the LORD makes in regards to the flesh. JESUS said that the experience in eternity would be one without the existence of gender, but that is not the case this side of eternity. We must build the concept of value into the idea of what it is to be a man made after the image of G-D. Once articulated to men their fit in the scheme of things and that it does make a difference that they are a part of things (as opposed to prodding them to believe that there is nothing exclusively unique about them) we can get them to appreciate the awesomeness of their inclusion in sincere expressions of worship.
Thanks again for sharing.
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