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Spiritual Warfare

frederick said:
Just about everywhere I go, single women in the church assemblies here way outnumber the guys. In the singles group I taught recently, there were 20 women and 8 guys.

Last week a friend told me about a situation with the singles group at the church he belongs to where a young woman stood up and expressed her dismay that there are 4 single females for every single guy in the church. She wept as she asked the leadership what they were doing to help the single females? They said they would pray about it and see what they could do to attract single guys into the church. They asked her if she had any ideas, and she said, "The church could allow polygamy." They said, "Well, that's not going to happen!"
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Another scary issue that I've noticed is a lack of children and increasing divorce rates. I would say about 75% of the men I went to high school with do not have kids. Out of the small percentage that do have kids only about 10% (or less) have stayed married to their original spouse. Everyone is paying child support. There is no growth in the lives of these men.

The decreased number of men in church is probably due to multiple factors. Less people being born male maybe.... sure, but I think it's more so easy access to video games, social media, porn, lack of good jobs, lack of father figures, being raised by single parents and only taught one mindset (there could be a separate thread for this subject alone) ...etc.

There is a lack of good men who are willing to work on their spiritual growth or strengthen their ties & bonds with families, have children and do the ye old game of life.
 
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