Re: Good things about patriarchies
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:30 pm
Wife:
Well, I’m not going to say that I always do a good job at following this and there are definitely some times when I’ve stepped out of place, but I would not consider this a church service and it doesn’t seem like evangelism is forbidden for women, especially given the slave girl in Elisha‘s time, Abigail addressing David, the Samarian woman telling everyone how awesome Jesus is and other examples. That being said, I would say that organising something evangelism focused like a community Bible study is different and should be led by a man unless it's aimed at ladies or children. Conservative ladies are often the ones approached by people from the outside, and that seems to fall under the universal command to "be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear(1 Peter 3:15).".
I don’t know if my speaking up in this context was appropriate or not and I've wondered that before myself , but I find that when men talk about this, the men that are promoting patriarchy are too often written off as abusers and men who don’t value women. I’m not saying that abuse never happens, but there is this thought that us dress wearing headcovered ladies are mistreated and undervalued when the vast majority of the marriages I’ve seen have been very happy with husbands that strive to love their wives.
Well, I’m not going to say that I always do a good job at following this and there are definitely some times when I’ve stepped out of place, but I would not consider this a church service and it doesn’t seem like evangelism is forbidden for women, especially given the slave girl in Elisha‘s time, Abigail addressing David, the Samarian woman telling everyone how awesome Jesus is and other examples. That being said, I would say that organising something evangelism focused like a community Bible study is different and should be led by a man unless it's aimed at ladies or children. Conservative ladies are often the ones approached by people from the outside, and that seems to fall under the universal command to "be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear(1 Peter 3:15).".
I don’t know if my speaking up in this context was appropriate or not and I've wondered that before myself , but I find that when men talk about this, the men that are promoting patriarchy are too often written off as abusers and men who don’t value women. I’m not saying that abuse never happens, but there is this thought that us dress wearing headcovered ladies are mistreated and undervalued when the vast majority of the marriages I’ve seen have been very happy with husbands that strive to love their wives.