SAN DIMAS, Calif. — If your church doesn’t have enough grunting, scratching and belching to suit your tastes, perhaps you should try “Man Church,” a new all-male service drawing as many as 170 men to monthly services in San Dimas, Calif.
The services, which are held at Montana’s, a country-western sports bar, open with a reel of sports bloopers and a live band playing praise tunes, including Christian rewrites of classic rock hits. Sermons center on topics such as battling lust and resisting pornography — topics men don’t want to hear about with women present.
Holding the service in a nightclub is intended to create a non-threatening environment in which men can learn to be better husbands and fathers.
“There’s a whole lot of people down on church and Christianity but they’re really not down on Jesus,” 46-year-old carpenter John Doss told The Los Angeles Times. “A guy might be willing to go to a bar for an hour and a half — you can’t drag him to church for anything.”
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