by David Howard | Oct 27, 2025
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The eyes of the world are no doubt influencing the definition of a “good Christian.” The world and many shepherds seem to believe Christians have to be accommodating, quick to apologize, and terrified of offending anyone. The worlds’ goal is to make Christian men look ridiculous, harmless, and socially and spiritually emasculated. This fallacy is drawn by our enemies, supported by many clergy and praised by the very culture that hates Christ. Sadly, this is how many Christian men have learned to view themselves. Many shepherds have compromised their preaching, pushing politeness for piety and cowardice for kindness enabling the fear of offending someone to be the “trump card” stopping the speaking of the bold truth of Christ. The result, many have built man-made guardrails around Christ’s truth that keep Disciples from speaking the bold truth into evil (Ephesians 5:11,13). Many Christian men, because of our culture and the lack of manly influence, have accepted this pathetic inversion of masculinity. When the unapologetic truth is the world-confronting faith in Jesus the Christ. His spoken truth is the foundational power of the New Testament through which God’s providence created America.
This degenerate contemptable culture surrounding us is enraged when they hear bold Christian men who love others more than themselves exposing evil by boldly speaking the truth. Everything God has ordered of His followers from Adam and Eve to the end of the Book of Revelation demands courageous believers to honor God’s commands. In Proverbs 28 – God advises His people are to be Righteous and as Bold as a Lion. John the Baptist in the four gospels was the first man in the New Testament to take on the bold speaking mantel. He criticized the multitudes, calling them a “brood of vipers” (Luke 3:7) and boldly told the world of the coming of Christ. In the Book of Acts where the church is created there are ten scriptures where believers saw the Disciple’s boldness, witnessed them praying for boldness, speaking the word with grace and boldness, preaching boldly and grew bold as the Holy Spirit of truth empowered them with bold guidance (See Acts 4:13,23,29,31-9:27,29-13:46-14:3-18:26-19:6). This is Christ’s standard of behavior for men!
Then how do Christian men and their clergy today grow passive, inert and many seemingly gravitate to a spiritual fetal position? Maybe Church leadership does not know how to address the difference between men and women. Many unknowingly align themselves with the feminine ideals, because it is easier. It’s easier to the tenth degree to teach people to be loving than to teach men to be boldly assertive with grace and willing to sacrifice themselves for Christ.
When men show up at church they may ask “What do you do here at this church?” The answer is “Well we read a lot, you can join the choir, help park cars or be a greeter? We also sit in circles and talk about our feelings and pray for each other.” The truth is, clergy want men to sit and to be preached to and behave, because they seem to have no realization that men need tangible substance they can hold on to. The men are thinking, “Well if that is what it is, then I don’t think I’m going to do that. I have worked hard all week, and would rather play golf, watch football or do anything productively rewarding.”
Why doesn’t clergy recognize they are missing the mark with men? Do they believe all men are like them, because they like to pray, sit, and listen but forget they are doing something productively rewarding? Focus on the Family did a study years ago and reported that 80% of the men attending church are bored. Another nationwide study revealed most Shepherds today teach a feminine brand of the Gospel, when no such gospel exist. These sermons are usually all about love, love, love that never do anything and the men are setting there thinking they are watching a noon day soap opera. Can these lukewarm mis-defined truths become reality in the rationalized state of man’s sinful nature? Can biblical preferences be in the natural, versus the spiritual, as clergy wrongly believe they are the example to follow, other than our courageous Savior? Does the gravitational pull caused by whitewashing Christ truth, enable the men in the body of Christ to believe there is little for them inside the four walls of the church? Are the clergy today like the Pogo comic? “We have found the enemy and he are us.”
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"The World"? Try the encroachment of Cultural Marxism into mainline Christianity - Protestant and Catholic churches alike - instead, and you'll be much closer to the truth. The undermining of traditional Christianity has been a long term project for the communists; they've been at it now for a century or more, and their efforts really picked up steam after WW2. Aided in no small measure by the degree to which they infiltrated institutions of higher learning. Including seminary schools.