A Woman's Place

God First, Husband Second, Children Third.

 

A woman's duty is to God, first and foremost.

A woman is to be submissive to her husband, but that does not mean she is to be a doormat. As Ann said, her ministry should be to her husband and family before any others outside of the family.

 

A husband is the head of the house, but the place of a woman (or for that matter, a man) is wherever the two prayerfully and in full agreement decide those places are to be. No controversy whatsoever.

 

Do you mean that she SUBMITS and obeys even if they disagree?

Because, that is the requirement. Unless he is leading her to Sin.

 

In a chauvensitic male society where prejudice towards women dominated anything goes. Hopefully, praise God, we have developed socially.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Responsibilities and duties. Hmmm.

I am IFB. I believe my duty as a female is to submit to my husband, and he is to submit to me. One to another. In matters where we cannot agree, he has the final word, and thus the final responsibility. Which is cool, because it's not going to be disagreed on unless it's a tough subject, and if it's tough, the results of being wrong are not something I want the responsibility for. hehehe

As a mother, I believe all women, unless there is no logical way possible, should be able to take their babies to work or stay at home until they are done with the phase of nursing, potty training, etc. and are old enough to have started implementing Christian ways of thinking and acting.

I am not against a woman working and a man staying home. I am against a woman being the spiritual leader in the home if she is married.

I've heard a few things in regards to women working. One is that women can't handle the stress of the workplace on top of their duties at home. My response to that is this: if their husbands are not working, they should be cleaning the house, making meals, and doing laundry at home if they are physically capable. What I saw the other day on television is absolutely correct...women are not exhausted because they can't handle working outside the home, they're exhausted because they can't handle fulfilling society's prejudiced view of a woman's place and duties on top of another full time job!

I am blessed with a sweet husband who is allowing me to work. He knows I want to, and he even offered to learn to cook. But I love to cook, so I haven't taught him yet. hehehe I might later though...

 

Good woman, Gina! Lucky man you have.

Glad to see someone following the commands of submission and not the Evil culture of equallity. (We are equal, but with different ROLES.)

 

Titus 2 has the answer to that. My question is, what is the man's place?

I find it interesting that so many IFB's emphasize the woman's place while overlooking the MAN"S place. If a man is truly fulfilling his duties as the loving leader of his home, loving his wife as Christ loves the church, the woman cannot help but submit and then EVERYONE will be in harmony. There would be no need to debate it, or stress it, or ask other people's opinions about it, because when the man is right with God, the rest of the family will follow.

 

The husband is not to be a tyrant or demand obedience; that is not biblical. The woman submits willingly. This all needs to be done in love - love naturally surrenders and submits. This is what the NT teaches.

If a man loves and serves his wife as the Bible directs him, his wife will be more apt to want to follow his lead as the spiritual head and submit to him. They both have their parts and roles.

 

No, because that's no scriptural. The call for a wife to submit to her husband is not a call for her to obay what he says. In a healthy marriage, both submit to each other, as they would to Christ. Both are to love each other, as Christ loves the Church. A husband is the spiritual head, but Christ (not the husband) is the head of the house.

As far as disagreements, the two are one. On matters that affect the household, both should be in agreement. If they are not in agreement, then the two are not one.

 

Troll alert!

 

John, we've dabbled in this discussion already and I still don't follow you. Are you saying no decision is to be made?

 

I admit, it is. I was referring to the attitude of the husband makes the decisions and the wife is supposed to simply do what he says. In that situations, the two are not one, the two are two. Most Godly marriage, however, don't live like that, thankfully.

If the two don't agree, then the decision is to keep the status quo until there is agreement between the two.

 

Quite frankly that's sometimes impossible.