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Do the Men of the Church look up to John Tesh or Mark Driscoll?

Is Mark Driscoll right?
Do men care about church?
Should men care about church?
Do we, as the church, target the audience before us which statistically is more female( I’ve heard 60%)?
Do we find ways to make sure that men know that Jesus was a man, the ultimate man, a man, that every girl should want to marry, and every guy should want to be?
Are Driscoll and his buddies right when they say that the church has preached an effeminate Jesus?
Is Mark right when he says: “Jesus did not have Elton John or the Spice girls on his iPod, The View on his Tivo, or a lemon-yellow Volkswagen beetle in his garage. No Jesus was not the kind of person, who, if walking by you on the street, would require you to look for an Adam’s apple to determine the gender.”
Is Anthony Bradley correct in stating the church’s inability to fulfill the mission of God when he says: “Pastor Teletubby, offering a pink-dressed Jesus, is not capable of leading a church into the gloriously dangerous sufferings of Gospel-driven local mission advancing the Kingdom of God ‘wherever the curse is found.’”?
A few years ago, Driscoll had some trouble on the Out of Ur blog over at christianitytoday.com. So I decided to see if the blog was still running. When I loaded the site it apeared to be fully operational, and guess who I saw at the top of the site? None other than John Tesh. Yes, your heard me right John Tesh. At the top of the site was a banner add for John Tesh’s Blog. No Joke. Here is the actual banner that was on the site?

As guy I have to say that just seeing John Tesh at the top of the site made me think: “These guys have nothing to say to me.” And I’m a Christian! I would bet that most people would be much more comfortable with John Tesh running their church than they would be with Mark Driscoll.

Mark is offensive, he is sometimes a bit imprecise but he is right when it comes to men. As a man I can confirm that men need to be told to step up; to stop pounding six packs of IC Light and playing Halo 3, while they surf for porn, and starting living like all of life is under the good reign of King Jesus, and that one day he is going to return and check our time cards.

“The Key to church growth is kick a guy in the middle as hard as you can.” - Mark Driscoll, from Preaching the Mission.