From The Rawstory:
Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday December 27, 2007
Studies show that 60% of regular churchgoers are women, and one group of men believes the reason is that “Christianity is too soft.”
ABC’s Nightline visited a meeting at a Tennessee shopping mall of nearly 300 men who call themselves “GodMen” and say they want to “cowboy up as followers of Jesus.” At the meeting, the men were encouraged to get in touch with their feelings about Internet pornography, adultery, and homosexuality.
Christian conservative standup comic Brad Kline, who co-founded the GodMen group, told ABC that Sunday church services are excessively strait-laced and disconnected from men’s concerns. “We have nothing to lose,” he said. “We don’t have any congregation we have to answer to. We’re just guys trying to be straight and being real.”
Paul Coughlin, author of No More Christian Nice Guy, explained to ABC that Christianity suffers because “we only emphasize the tender stuff. We cut out the tough stuff about Jesus, and that’s awfully unfortunate … You cannot love without courage.”
“Be good instead of nice but know that you’re going to make enemies in the process,” Coughlin told the group. “Jesus never said we couldn’t have any enemies. He just said to pray for them.”
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