The Day of Men

Last week was the wildest worship service we’ve been to so far.  The Men’s Fellowship Group was in charge of worship, which made the pastor say the week before that he was sure would be an adventure.  The great part about it was that the men really came together to do some special things with music and skits.  Also, one of the men preached a message about the relationship of men to their families and God, and they sang a few more songs as a men’s chorus than they usually do.

The skits were fascinating though, because even in this relatively conservative society, the men felt free to dress up as women in their skits and really ham it up (which everyone thought was hilarious).  They used the skits to caricature how families often expect the father to relate to them in not very active ways and so in practice they don’t respect him much.  It was a fun and thoughtful way of presenting the topic and commenting on how they desire to follow Christ personally and let Christ’s way be the authority they point to in their families.  I’d like to see more men’s groups in the States (period…) do this sort of thing.