| 140 - Understanding Your Church’s Man Code |
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| Written by Patrick Morley, David Delk, and Brett Clemmer |
| Wednesday, December 10 2008 12:25 |
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Adapted from No Man Left Behind by Pat Morley, David Delk, and Brett Clemmer (Moody, 2006) Quick...in a phrase or sentence, what’s the dress code in your church? Is it business casual, suit and tie, or cowboy boots and blue jeans? (At our training, one group from Hawaii said “shorts and thongs.” They meant sandals, of course.) How do guys know this? Is there a sign in front of your church: “First Community Church, Shirt and Tie required”? Do you have fashion police standing at the doors? Of course not. Men are smart. It doesn’t take more than a week to figure out what to wear. Just as your church has an unspoken—but well-known—dress code, it also has an unspoken “man code.” The man code is the environment your church creates for men. Within a few weeks after beginning to attend, a man understands what it means to be a man in this church. Just like with the dress code, men soak it in from the atmosphere.
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