As you said, young men as a whole are not being taught how to assess the young women in their lives.
There is a wealth of warnings in the Proverbs for men about certain types of women to avoid, but it's a sad reality that I never once heard a sermon or a lesson on any of those passages.
I saw a little bit of attention drawn to Proverbs 31 as "an example of what women should be and an example of what men should look for in a woman", but that was only ever in passing and I don't recall ever hearing an in-depth sermon about it in any of the churches that I've been a part of.
It's also sad that I often got the impression that the underlying cause of why a preacher was trying to build up young men was because he was concerned that there wouldn't be any "good men" for the young women to marry.
That's one thing I've always appreciated about you Paul: I've always felt like you had men's best interests at heart, and that you cared for them simply for their own sake and not for the sake of ultimately somehow benefiting women.
Great talk, as always!
As you said, young men as a whole are not being taught how to assess the young women in their lives.
There is a wealth of warnings in the Proverbs for men about certain types of women to avoid, but it's a sad reality that I never once heard a sermon or a lesson on any of those passages.
I saw a little bit of attention drawn to Proverbs 31 as "an example of what women should be and an example of what men should look for in a woman", but that was only ever in passing and I don't recall ever hearing an in-depth sermon about it in any of the churches that I've been a part of.
It's also sad that I often got the impression that the underlying cause of why a preacher was trying to build up young men was because he was concerned that there wouldn't be any "good men" for the young women to marry.
That's one thing I've always appreciated about you Paul: I've always felt like you had men's best interests at heart, and that you cared for them simply for their own sake and not for the sake of ultimately somehow benefiting women.
Keep up the great work!
GBS! Brilliant!