Andrew Tate’s ‘Gospel’

Over 100k+ men subscribed ($50 per month) to Andrew Tate’s Hustler University.

Why?

Because he promised something that they did not possess or possessed little of.

Power. Sex. Money.

He convinced men (loosely speaking) that to obtain what they want demands sacrifice, asceticism, and newly formed boundaries.
Men are willing to eat less, exercise more, practice self-mastery, spend less on themselves, spend more on a program like Tate’s for something that they want bad enough.

The key to Andrew Tate’s huge enrollment:
He promises to give men something they don’t possess.

Which brings me to the Church and men’s ministries.
Why aren’t more men banging down the doors to join men’s groups?
Why aren’t men begging to enter the Catholic Church?
More precisely, why are men avoiding the aforementioned?

Men are willing to suffer for that which they want but do not possess.

As a Church, we have failed, miserably, at two things:

Demonstrating compellingly why every man should want heaven and heaven’s God—
more than anything.
Yes, more than power, sex and money.

And that obtaining one’s salvation and sanctification is the most difficult thing any man can ever do.

In the name of God, homilists, catechists, and evangelists hand out salvation, eternal life, and the Gospel like its Halloween candy.

It is free.
You don’t have to work for it.
Little to no sacrifice is needed to obtain it.
Everyone is saved.
Yawn. Who cares.

If someone already has something that is free and easy, and is not all that desirable, he is not going to sacrifice his money, lusts, comforts, idols, more precisely: his self-idolatry for it.