MegaShift on Male Leadership

This from Rutz - a shot across the bow on developing male leadership. Rutz is a huge proponent of open church for the spontaneous expanision of the church. Open church is a small group of believers gathered to openly interact over scripture. This type of empowerment helps to rapidly increase leadership in the body.

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Why don't more American men attend traditional services along with their wives? Is it maybe because they've figured out that the pastor has taken on the role of surrogate husband of every woman in the congregation? Is it because they instinctively recoil from a game where they're shut out and have to play a passive part? You betcha. When there's no room left for strong men, they opt out.

Open churches offer a reason to opt back in: unlimited empowerment, which produce men of iron and women of fire.

You don't' grow strong men by making them sit in rows. You grow men by whacking them on the shoulder and saying, "On your feet. What has God been showing you this week?"
Strong males who are forced to to be pew warmers are like the bench warmers in football: They're aching to to grab the coach by the lapels, get in his face and yell, "Just put me in the game! Just gimme the ball!"
In team Christianity, as in war, everybody is in the game, and everybody gets his hands on the ball. Typically, men will do roughly 60% of the talking and women 40%. That's not something we aim for, it's just what happens - and everyone seems to like it that way.

Lions do not grow in small cages. And after a life time in a cage, it does no good to set them free, either. Zoo-born animals fed by keepers never learn to survive in the wild.
Rousseau observed that men are born free, yet are everywhere in chains. I would add that men are born wild at heart, yet our churches are filled with captured lions, tamed pew-sitters who no longer know - if they ever knew - how to feed themselves spiritually.
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Megashift pg. 124, 125