The first video is the GodMen promo that the organization puts out. The second is an ABC news Nightline report on the event:
To me, this seems like Promise Keepers with more electric guitars, which--for the most part--will probably be a good thing for a lot of the attendees.
Since I've never attended a GodMan presentation, I'll try to keep my mouth shut, but please feel free to leave your initial reactions to the videos in the comments. I'd really like to hear from women on this one, do you feel that events like these are productive for the men in your lives? Any other thoughts?
For those that have been to one of these events, a few questions: what exactly is the GodMan vision of manhood? Is it an aggressive, competitive, stick up for yourself man or something more complicated? Did you find it to be a helpful event? Did they do anything there that you weren't getting in church?
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Then they pulled out the final speaker and the whole thing flipped into perspective. What a brilliant event. Very Christ-speaking-like in the juxtaposition of ideas. Stand up and fight for your beliefs, it's okay to have enemies, and by the way, love this man who stands for everything you likely hate.
Now, the cynical side of me is wondering how many of those men who were talking about "standing up for what I believe in" and "running out of cheeks" and not caring if they offend witches, really wanted to stand up and applaud a homosexual. How much of that standing ovation is going to carry back to the real world?
So. I'm still not really in favour of this "x group have special needs" stuff, but this seemed to be well put together.
Do they do the same thing at all their seminars?
"We should mistrust any interpretation of Scripture that simply confirms our instincts. If it is more natural for a man to be agressive and a woman to be passive, then a genuine encounter with Christ should challenge a man to become gentle (Gal. 5:23) and a woman to become bold (2 Tim. 1:7). . . . Indeed, Jesus was not afraid to offend and rebuke. He was not kind at the expense of the truth. But those qualities are not masculine as such; they are godly. Imposing qualities we consider masculine on an image of Jesus we consider feminine does not solve the problem. It only gives us a new problem-another culturally shaped Jesus, only masucline this time." (p. 51)
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My hope is that ultimately Christian men don't learn "how to act" or even "how to be good" but "how to submit" to the Holy Spirit within them. If we only learn to act and be good, then we tend to be moved by the next competent and exciting teacher who tells us what to do and how to think.
Do we have so much confusion because we insist on listening to leaders instead of doing the work of Bible study?
RE: a previous post about the apparent all white audience. It could have something to do with $68 to hear the teachings of Jesus. There's something to be said about free- will offerings and speakers expecting less $. I don't know what these speakers were paid--they certainly deserve to be paid something--but how is it that those who go to the mission fields must come up with funding so people can hear the Gospel for free; and in America we need to charge $68. WWJD?