young men

my last blog was about a pastor named mark driscoll. here is another one of his quotes… (women, please do not take offense)

“So the question is if you want to be innovative: How do you get young men? All this nonsense on how to grow the church. One issue: young men. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. They’re going to get married, make money, make babies, build companies, buy real estate. They’re going to make the culture of the future. If you get the young men you win the war, you get everything. You get the families, the women, the children, the money, the business, you get everything. If you don’t get the young men you get nothing. You get nothing.”

this quote is comforting because one the biggest complaints about our church is that there are no women. we have become a “man” church. apart from our college meetings, most of our events have a guy/girl ratio of about 5/1. that makes it difficult for us to welcome more women into our community. but mark driscoll definitely emphasizes the positive aspects of having young men.

*this is a picture of some of our “young men” on one of our macho outings