Pastoring Men
Patrick Morley (Chicago: Moody, 2016)
In this book, Patrick Morley seeks to help pastors and church leaders understand what makes men tick, and then offers practical help for starting to reach the men in your church and community. This may or may not include an exclusively “men’s” ministry, but must include a vision for seeing every man in your church discipled.
I appreciated Morley’s heart in this, and there are a number of useful insights, especially as he related the relevant literature on organizational change to the biblical example of Nehemiah. However, I also thought the book was poorly written, not well structured, and often read like an extended ad for Morley’s other books and classes. I will probably write a paper drawing some of the key insights and keep the book for reference, but I won’t ever re-read it in full.
