Comments on: Muscular Christianity

By: barefootmeg

barefootmeg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:44:19 +0000

*eyeroll* that video is such a guy thing. all i could think was 1) that’s a waste of perfectly good bricks and 2) i pity the poor person who’s going to have to clean all that up.

By: John Foust

John Foust — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:28:51 +0000

I’ve created a web page about the Power Team. You might want to read it.

By: f.t.

f.t. — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:10:33 +0000

funny, the only role alotted to women was with the children… “she is uniquiely designed to nurture children” is the saying commonly heard. so children have no role models of godly, Christlike men who are passionate about following Jesus.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:42:12 +0000

I’ll agree that men need to take responsibility for the state of the church. We are set up as the leaders, and it’s our responsibility if we have a problem with the current state. However, I will make a point that even though the Church is run my men in a very large margin, I think that the point could be made that the vast majority of Sunday school teachers are women. This moves and shifts along denominational lines, but in the formative younger years, I think it’s undoubtedly more feminine in nature. I can’t see my 1st grade Sunday school teacher, Ms. Patty, telling the story of Samson and really leaning into the part about… well, any part really. Guys embrace the story or not based on how the people in the story got along or followed instructions. The kids’ view of Christianinty is shaped in large part by the teacher’s desire to get a group of seven year-olds to behave or mind their parents. “God didn’t have to ask Daniel twice…” etc. This ‘Wild at Heart’ movement (if we can call it that) will hopefully inspire more men to get involved in the lives of younger men in the church so that the environment can change if it needs to. I think there needs to be more discipleship among men in the church than there is.

I think that bending a wrench with your bare hands could be an example of hyper-feminism… It’d have to be some kind of super-hyper-feminism, but I’m sure if you searched enough softball teams, you could find it.

By: Josh Rives

Josh Rives — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:15:02 +0000

I guess maybe I could have chosen a better term than “hyper-masculine.” I was referring to the idea that when a bunch of guys get together, the best form of entertainment for them is to watch a guy bend a wrench with his bare hands. Since that is not (hopefully) true masculinity, then maybe it is hyper-masculinity (cause it sure isn’t hyper-feminism).

And there was no complaining (I hope) nor support towards either complementarianism or egalitarianism. Just an observation of a current trend.