Updated 12:47 pm.EST, Sun November 22, 2009

Ministries|Tue, Mar. 20 2007 06:32 PM EDT

Christian Men Seek Lost Masculinity

By Lillian Kwon|Christian Post Reporter

Women of Faith conferences draw on average 400,000 women a year.

"As I speak to women around the country, most are delighted when men take a bigger spiritual role," said Murrow.

Murrow recently came out of a meeting with the nation's largest men's ministry, Promise Keepers. The ministry has been hosting large-scale conferences for 17 years, packing stadiums with thousands of men at a time. While also providing men a place to get together with fellow Christian men, Promise Keepers has a different approach than GodMen to building up men.

"We're trying to help guys understand what it means to be a godly man in today's culture," Jim Weidmann, senior vice president of the ministry, told The Christian Post.

A godly man, he explained, is one of integrity. He's serving, loving and forgiving, but also bold and wise as Jesus was, said Weidmann.

And the wives and daughters are all for building godly men as many sign up to volunteer at Promise Keepers events and cheer them on.

GodMen has something more assertive in mind - a knight in shining armor.

"When women see that what they see is what they wanted all along - a man who believes in honesty and integrity and strength and leadership and the knight in shining armor ... we're here to be the man you wanted all along," said Stine.

As for finding his feminine side, which men are often told to do, Stine told ABC, "I found it. I married her. I'm good. I got feminine side 24 hours a day. And I need her.

"But what I wanted to say is 'let's come back and find that balance.'"

GodMen goes national this year beginning September in Mobile, Ala.

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  • Fri May 08, 2009 3:34 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

    This is news? My Church had groups and organizations for men, women and children to participate in and that was in the 1960's.

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