Why Men Hate Going to Church

by David Murrow

DO NOT BELITTLE MEN OR ACT SPIRITUALLY SUPERIOR Some women have noticed their spiritual superiority and lord it over men. One time I was attending a couples’ Bible study. The leader asked Eduardo to look up a passage in the book of Zephaniah. He searched for a minute or two and finally found Zechariah. In his confusion Eduardo read the wrong verse. His wife, Rita, reached over and grabbed the Bible with a dramatic sigh. She found the passage in about ten seconds and, with a look of triumph, handed the Bible back to her husband. Guess where Eduardo was next week? Not at Bible study; that’s for sure. I’ve also heard women ridicule and patronize men, saying things like, “You boys go off and have your little retreat; do your men’s thing out in the woods.” Questioning a man’s competence or manhood is not the way to draw him to Christ.