Church and Real Men

I am going to vent today. After this video by Mark Driscoll, I realized even more how badly the church needs real men. The church has done a good job reaching out to women, and is even somewhat appealing to more effeminate men. In fact, it seems a lot of younger, Christian men tend too be more feminine than the ones outside the church. Perhaps it is just that society today likes metro-sexual men. Sadly, the metro-sexual thing is a disgrace to manhood. We have young men in the church (and out) who have never worked a real job in their lives. The styles of dress are meant to make men look more like women. Seems like 90% of these guys can't change a tire, change their own oil, much less do any real car repair. They can't do a hard day's work. Back in the day, if you were a young man, you would be working in a coal mine, or logging trees, or farming, maybe even working in a factory. Nowadays, there's a taboo against hard labor. I think it's up to the church to start reaching out to the manly men; the ones who like to hunt, fish, work on cars, and shoot guns. Let's get some more ministries that reach out to that kind of man. Let's make sure all of the other young men in the church can learn how to be a man. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with enjoying the finer things in life, but I do think that manhood is losing its masculinity.

(Note: this would not let me publish the video, so go to Youtube and type in "Mark Driscoll Macho Man")