The statistic above is the motivation and the activation for the “93 Revolution ” . Our goal by the grace of God is to be a prophetic voice to the Church by drawing attention to Pastors and leaders around the Globe that a Revolution among men is non negotiable for the evangelising of our towns cities and nations .
A man’s influence
Research from America suggests that if a child is the first person to become a Christian, there is only a 3.5% probability that the rest of the family will follow.
If the mother is the first to become a Christian, the probability rises to 17%. But if the father is the first, there is a 93% probability that everyone else in the household will follow.
Sid Woodruff, a men’s ministry specialist, said the statistics shout the importance of churches becoming more intentional in their development of ministries for men. ‘If you reach the men, you reach the families’, he said. ‘But to reach the men, you have to enter their world.’
He went on to say that non-church-attending men are not necessarily opposed to going to church. ‘They just don’t see churches as being “male friendly”‘, he said.
How do we grow the Church ?
PERSONAL INVITATION
Research reveals that a personal invitation or encouragement from a family member or friend is much more powerful than anything that the church can do.
The further removed people are from churchgoing at present, the less likely they are to voice any factors that would increase their likelihood of doing so (more) in future. As many as two thirds of closed de-churched adults and three quarters of closed non-churched say that ‘nothing’ would encourage their future attendance at church. People who go to church only sporadically at present are not necessarily easily persuaded to increase their commitment to more regular attendance.
Among those with past experience of churchgoing, the factor most likely to encourage future attendance is if a family member started going or wanted to go. The more personal the influence, the more influential it is likely to be. In terms of positive contributory factors, accompanying a family member is more influential than accompanying a friend. A personal invite from someone is more powerful than an invite from the church as an organisation, or the offer of an Alpha course or similar. However among the open non-churched, the advantage of a personal invite over a church invite is marked (28% vs. 3%); among this small segment of receptive unchurched people, a personal invite is by far the most important trigger to attending, even ahead of family factors.
Where are the men?
Why so few men in Church?
The story of the missing men
The Tearfund report shows that in the UK the ratio of women to men in church is 65% to 35%. So while men still dominate the priesthood or pastorship, statistics show that 2/3 of the church membership are women and if you look at programmes run within the church a much higher percentage of them are led by women than men.
My Spiritual Father – Ed Cole
Who is this guy ???
I have often wondered in today’s media how they would have reported on Jesus and his ministry.
I’m sure Christ would have been headline news wherever he went.
Here is a reflection of how I think they might have reported on the Ministry of the Lord
Radical preacher upsetting the clergy but it seems the people love him. He has a no nonsense approach but recently even some of his disciples have been offended and no longer follow him.
Who is this Guy?
- He breaks all rules
- He is confrontational and in your face
- he is Opinionated
- He is challenging
- He is a rebel
- He is radical
- He ran amok at a car boot sale in a church car park
- He kicked over tables and was shouting his mouth off . He had a whip too and could have been charged with breach of the peace and carrying an offensive weapon
The police were present and witnessed it all but never even uttered a Word.
There are rumours some of the police are secret followers
Who is this guy!!!
He was barred from his local Church for his beliefs -he upset them so much the first time he preached he had to run for his life
He eventually had to leave his home town because they couldn’t stand him any longer.
He is even nasty to his students calling them dumb and dull
One young man was so hurt when he said of his late Father “let the dead bury the dead”
He is impatient asking how long he must put up with his followers it’s strange they are still-with him.
No wonder a whole bunch of them left him after he insisted they must eat his body and drink his blood
He disregards protocol and embarrasses his interviewers and is inappropriate even when he is a guest in some leaders homes
He name calls respectable men and verbally assaulted a government official
In one speech he mentioned excrement going down a drain and then called a woman a dog
The local press in towns and cities have a field day with his antics spreading his reputation around the country. It gets so bad as he approached a town The Lord Mayor and some MPs tell him he is not welcome and to keep walking .
He has been telling some reporters that his message will tear families apart
And he has come to bring division and conflict
Who is this guy ??
He can be very sarcastic and doesn’t apologise for it
He once told a group of Church leaders that their Father was the devil.
He likes to party and actually supplied the wine for a whole wedding group free of charge
He seems to be a magnet for mentally imbalanced people and scoundrels, he frequents pubs and is good friends with the landlords.
Sometimes his own students are so afraid of him they dare not ask him a question for fear of his response
This is certainly not seeker friendly ministry !!!
His family history tells a story he has relatives that were adulterers , fornicators , pagans and murderers and one of them was a famous prostitute .
His cousin was a nutcase and was executed for threatening the president and screaming abuse at church leaders
His own relatives think he is a fake and that he is out of his mind
They actually went down to his house one day with the family thinking he had lost the plot and he wouldn’t even come to the door .
There was a public outcry recently when he allowed a prostitute to wipe his feet with her hair / a practice she uses to entice men to her bed.
He called his best friend Satan and the local synod of Bishops a bunch of snakes from hell
He enjoyed one woman’s expensive and extravagant perfumed oil being poured on him rumours say it was worth about £15000 .
He shocked the crowds that day when he said “she has done a beautiful thing to me “
Then he has the audacity to tell a young businessman to sell all he owns and give it to the poor.
He has plenty of money too and gives to the needy even though his financial director is a crook and is defrauding him .
He has used his own spittal and saliva
As medicine
He upset a whole town when he decided to have dinner in the home of the most hated taxman in the region
It’s rumoured some farmers put out a contract on his life for drowning all their Pigs
Who is this guy ???
Even when he was publicly executed he was crying out with a loud voice when others couldn’t even whimper
whilst he is dying he is arranging a house removal and promising another dying man beside him an invitation to a party that same day
You can’t kill this guy he gets gets 40 lashes , beaten and crucified and then a few days later he is spotted having a barbecue on the beach
He rallies all his followers and tells them to go out into the world and make other men to be
JUST LIKE HIM !!!
And If you think that’s bad one of his disciples named John said he is coming back again with a sword in his mouth and is getting a tatoo on his thigh saying Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
His robe will be dipped in blood and he is coming back for a fight.
One reporter said he will make William Wallace look like a cocktail waitress !!
He is coming with with a banner saying
“This time no more mister nice guy “
To the women women he is Gentle Jesus meek and mild
But to the men sometimes he is Mental Jesus mean and wild !!
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