Today's popularized church has become largely feminized in its mode of thinking, in its speech, in its appearance, in its conduct, and in its lack of power. A starting place for investigating this issue might be to review either David Morrow's, "Why Men Hate Going to Church," or Leon Podles', "The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity." There are other recently published works available on this topic.The following list gives easily observable features of today's feminized church:1. Talk is either equated with action, or supplants action. Just listen to the undemonstrated talk in any 30-50 minute sermon by just about any preacher in any church. Women compulsively talk. Real men compulsively observe and think. James 1:19 says, "Let every man be swift to hear, and slow to speak." This does not describe 30-50 minutes of preaching. I Corinthians 4:20 and James 1:26 are clear about this.2. Talk is excessive, and explanations are typically overdone by preachers. Proverbs 10:19 says, "In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin; but he that refraineth his lips is wise. Jesus never is recorded to have spoken for more then a few minutes on any one topic. He was concise, direct, clear, and very germane.3. Feelings and intuitive inclinations are promoted by preachers to be used to assess issues and to make decisions. Frequently, preachers say, "The facts of Scripture must travel the 16 inches from your heads to your hearts!!" But that is sheer nonsense, not said in Scripture, and requires intuitive "understanding" to agree with. Scripture, rather, wants us to be alert, clear minded, and cognitively purposeful. Preachers conduct emotion laden sales pitches using many rhetoric devices to get listeners to agree with their words. Preachers do not require or enable listeners to make personal assessments and decisions as a process of discovery on their own. Their preaching most often is just a long sales pitch, called a "message."4. Feelings and intuitive appeal is used to "attract" people into church. Jesus and the Apostles had immense and material demonstrations of true spiritual Power in God. Yet, preachers today use what is "New!!", or is "Exciting!!", or is "Special!!" to supposedly lure people to God. Jesus and His Apostles did not attract people using their appetites and desires, but used the sheer Power of the Gospel to convict people of their need for God's forgiveness and regeneration.5. Churches give the message, "You can be one of us!!", or "You can have a better life with abundance!!", or "You can be freed from your pain!!" But this is not the reason Scripture gives for being born again. Jesus and the Apostles preached the Gospel to keep people from perishing in sin and Hell.6. The church has redefined how the human heart operates, going from the Scriptural demonstration of the human heart being the core of fallen nature in a person to today's "heart" being the seat of mere feelings, affections, desires, and will. The church talks a lot about how people can supposedly at will change their hearts by being in group discussions, listening to sermons, hanging around with other believers, avoiding the World, agreeing with nice ideas from the Bible, and speaking churchy sounding talk.7. "Christian" music is not conducted or used in church as it was demonstrated in Scripture. Rather, it is now used to entertain, lull people into hypnotic compliance in church services, get them emotionally revved up before the sermon, to "inspire our hearts" (not shown in Scripture for music), to fuel the imagination, to speak some very questionable theology which just sounds good, to provide a career for musicians, to attract the gullible and undiscerning, to focus worship efforts, and to validate any sort of church event.8. Self serving and intuitive "explanations" are tossed out to audiences during sermons as "The Word of God!!", wherein a mixture of the preacher's personal opinions, ideas, hopes, desires, and feelings are mixed in with some Scripture. There is no manly discipline of reliably seperating the facts of written Scripture from personal emotions. Sermons typically end with some sort of personal or emotional appeal to the listeners.9. Verbal softeners and understatement lace today's preaching. "The way things are said" is deemed far more important than the substance of what is said. "Body language" and voice modulation are called "90% of communication," even though Scripture, being the supreme mode of communication, has no such "body language" or voice modulation in it. Preachers usually say, "I just want to talk a little bit about some things regarding ... ", as if they are afraid to make direct statements from Scripture. Jesus and His Apostles were affrontive, direct, spoke the axiomatic truth from Scripture, and did not babble with "lite" ideas. They did not try to be "nice to everyone."10. The specific aspects of today's active service to God and His kingdom by the church are always carefully considered for the "safety" issues and what "seems like a good idea for us to do." Wholesale committment to God's principles apart from the calculation of pragmatic benefits to believers is missing. Material risk and danger, features of true manhood, are typically avoided, except for those overcommitted "missionaries."11. The use of wives' feelings and intuitive senses as checkpoints for male leadership is Unscriptural. The Apostles never "Checked with the wife" before making decisions or before acting. A woman's sipposed "inner sense," or "special insight," or "lack of peace" about something the husband would do, or other men would do in the church, is pure nonsense. 12. There has occurred a marked predominance of "nurturing" behavior as a means of supposedly attaining spiritual maturity, rather than using personal accountability as shown in Scripture. This is a feminine mindset. Jesus never "nurtured" anyone, but always challenged His men and commanded them to be and do Godliness.13. Scriptural imperatives are selectively "considered" under the "guidance" of preachers via their sales pitches. Obedience to Scripture becomes an advertising and sales event, just like women shopping at the mall, "picking and choosing" what they think is "best" for them.14. The feminization of Jesus Himself is accepted to be "how He was in the Bible." However, Jesus was rude, harsh, demanding, imposing, socially disruptive, uncontrolled by social customs, not white skinned like the pictures of Him, did not have nicely washed hair and our kind of hygiene, and did not rock baby sheep in His arms.15. Overreacting to trivia is rife in church ideology and material decisions. The decor of interiors, the architecture of the buildings, the false "ministries," the conduct of highly esthetic weddings, the exclusion of tobbacco on the outside premises, getting specially dressed for events, the elaborate holiday programs, and and being afraid to appear "strange" occupies a lot of time and energy. Overreacting to minor verbal opposition in the public media by calling it "persecution" is weak. "Ministering to peoples' felt needs" is not Scriptural. It is God who is the diagnostician for true human needs, and He does not spend a lot of attention to feelings. He is interested in material needs, and material deeds. Matthew 5:16 states this.The feminized church minces on, each Sunday.Shelli.