It is a challenge, since we are faced with expectations that we can fulfil. Nothing is too ready. We also have to ask how the national church should react to the fact that it fails to reach young and middle-aged men. The military parish is the same as the group of people who are present in a given situation. This levels out problems, since the military parish needs to find a communal, esprit de corps structure of significance.
Nobody has a greater claim to being right than the next man.
In an ordinary parish everyone has to agree and the group becomes smaller. The military parish is one with a full range of religious thought and interpretations. The search for a esprit de corps structure of significance is also shown in the target setting of the military parish. Converting is out of the question. In the pastoral counselling of the military we can find that men too have a soul, which is worth no end of appreciation and care.