Reaching men

I've just started reading Why men hate going to church and it has some disturbing statistics which I found alarming about the rate of men leaving the church and suggestions about why this is. Basically David Murrow's point is that we do church for women and it therefore doesn't appeal to men. So men love adventure, excitement, challenge and risk, women like security, safety and friendship. The church does the later but not much of the former. Women tend to be more academic men more practical. I could go on with other things that he points out as possible contributors as to why we struggle to reach men.

But actually what is more alarming is that besides men the other part of the populace which is abandoning church is women between the ages of 18 and 34. Maybe because they now share the desire for excitement, challenge, risk and the church is not providing this.

Yet Jesus called, challenged, confronted and risked and had no problem winning men. It has set me thinking about how would you do church that reaches men as well as ladies? Does it mean shorter services? Does it mean bacon butties before church? Is the need for discipleship, where men can challenge one another and spur one another on to take risks and to live out their faith?

In short how could we do church that men loved?