roles

The recent debate on gender roles, from the Christian perspective, in response to Sarah Palin’s election as the running mate to John McCain gave me much food for thought, especially that of the role of men today.

For awhile now, I have been observing and bemoaning the fact that much of Christendom has been feminized to such an extent that there aren’t many Christian men today whom we can certainly call true leaders both at home and in church.

My point is this: that if Christian women are to be godly women, then it follows that we must have godly men who will fulfill the roles that God has ordained them to be in. As the ones ordained to be the leaders both at home and in church, if we men are not godly, it will follow that the women we lead, no matter if we like or admit it, will more than likely not fulfill their godly responsibilities.

I’ve yet to put much of my thoughts on this down, but as a start I am sharing this video on the issue, taken from the TV show Wretched.

I have been busy cleaning and sprucing up the house in preparation for a valuation that a real estate agent will be doing Friday. In light of that, I apologize for the lack of posts that come from personal study for the time being, instead counting on re-posting what notable teachers have written (and which I agree with) on subjects that I had wanted to address such as the following.

Since Sarah Palin was picked by John McCain to be his running mate for the American presidency, there’s been quite a debate on whether a Christian woman who’s also a mother should run for public office. I’m not going to be drawn into that debate, but I’ll simply say that I’m unmoved by the pro-feminist elements in the Church and their agenda.

Many of us today believe that women are equal to men, i.e. women should have the same liberties as men do. I don’t disagree with that — the Bible does teach that men and women are equal before God, but stresses that men and women have different roles as ordained by God.

The problem is that most folks mix up equality and roles in such a way that both are indistinguishable. Popular culture today teaches that it’s “unfair” that women have to give birth to children and be mothers. In fact, in most developed countries, women see domestic responsibilities as being of lesser importance or prestige than wearing a suit wheeling and dealing in the boardroom.

In light of my debates with fellow Christians who have no doubt been much influenced by the feminist agenda even to the point of insisting that women can be pastors in church and that Paul’s divinely-inspired instruction to the contrary is dated, here’s a good, Biblical look at the issue from Pulpit Magazine, adapted from the Grace Church elders’ distinctive on “The Role of Women.”:

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In Part One, we learned that marriage is an institution ordained by God from the very beginning, when Eve was made a help for Adam as God knew that it was no good for man to be alone.

In this second part, we’ll look at the gender roles for men and women in a marriage as instructed in the Bible.

Husbands

Perhaps the most important passage in the Bible on the role of the husband in a marriage is found in Ephesians 5:23 –

For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Ephesians 5:23

That sets the tone for any marriage. The husband is the head of the family, just as Christ Jesus is the head of the church.

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