I really enjoyed David Murrow's book "Why men hate going to church". The last post I wrote reminded me about some of the things I learned from that book:
*The typical U.S. Congregation draws an adult crowd that’s 61% female, 39% male. *This gender gap shows up in all age categories.
*This Sunday almost 25 percent of married, churchgoing women will worship without their husbands.
*Midweek activities often draw 70 to 80 percent female participants.
Depressed yet? You can go to his website to read more: http://churchformen.com/ I REALLY encourage you to watch the two minute clip he put on there.
The target of the average church in the USA appears to be 50 year old women. As Murrow points out, in many churches, we talk often about how Jesus wants to have an intimate, passionate, love relationship with us. Those are awkward sentiments for a man to make toward another man. The book was very interesting.
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