{"id":10420,"date":"2012-03-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2013-06-22T21:24:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T05:24:02","slug":"women-must-lead-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/women-must-lead-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Must Lead the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Men are abandoning the church in droves.<\/p>\n

It’s true.<\/p>\n

If you don’t believe me, just look around your sanctuary this coming Sunday and count the men. Then count the women. Unless your church bucks the trend, your church will have a strong majority of women.<\/p>\n

There are numerous cultural and sociological reasons for this, none of which I intend to delve into (see this book for some help<\/a>\"\").<\/p>\n

Instead, I want to talk about the cure.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, if a church wants to get more men into church, we must begin with what we currently have: women.<\/p>\n

\"Women<\/p>\n

Women are the key to the life, health, vibrancy, and future of the western church.<\/p>\n

Women. Who have been sidelines, maligned, silenced, rebuked, broken, beaten, and told that their place is downstairs with the children.<\/p>\n

Men have led the church away from men, so it is now time for women to lead the church–not further away from men, but toward men.<\/p>\n

Here is a small example of what I mean:<\/p>\n