GMen_Newsletter_July_2012

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News Male Rite Of Passage

Has Leaving Church Become A Sign of Manhood?

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athers did you know that young men are leaving the faith at an alarming rate. Research indicates that more than 70%

of boys brought up in today’s’ churches abandon it during their teens and twenties. Why is this happening? We work so

Throughout human history men have

hard to train them up in the way they should

had the sacred responsibility of initiating boys

go. How could they simply abandon it after

into manhood through rites of passage. In

years of valuable training? I believe we can

primitive cultures the men capture the boys

combat this widespread tragedy – if we revive

from their mothers and take them into the

young male initiation.

wilderness. There the boys learn the ways of men. Convictions are shared. They are

1 Building Men. Raising Sons!


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