Research shows men’s discipleship lags behind women’s. The power of relationships can help make disciples of men in church.
Dig deep into research about ministry to men in America, and you’ll find both good news and bad.
Despite a spike in 2022 among men who never attend, the gender gap in church attendance has closed in recent years, according to the General Social Survey (GSS). In 2022, there’s a 5-point gap between men (15%) and women (20%) who attend religious services at least weekly. That’s less than half of what it was in the early 1980s.
The gender gap in at least weekly church attendance (20% women, 15% men) has shrunk to less than half of what it was in the early 1980s, according to the GSS. Click To Tweet
Yet men still lag behind women in several discipleship metrics.
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