A Womans Role in the Home Almost without

A Woman’s Role in the Home “Almost without exception we have found in counseling that when there have been other serious problems in a marriage, there also has been the problem of husband-wife role failure, usually taking the form of role reversal. ” – Jay Adams, Christian Living in the Home

“Marriage has existed for the benefit of men and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women. . . Male society has sold us the idea of marriage. . . Now we know it is the institution that has failed us and we must work to destroy it. . . The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore, it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men. ” – Nancy Lehmann and Helen Sullinger The Document: Declaration of Feminism, 1971

A Woman’s Role in the Home "A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ, “ The husband "has the Godgiven responsibility to provide for, to protect and to lead his family. “ - Southern Baptist Convention’s Declaration of Beliefs, June 1998

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To be in subjection to her husband. Genesis 3: 16 (NKJV) 16 To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you. ”

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To be in subjection to her husband. Ephesians 5: 22– 24 (NKJV) 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Ephesians 6: 5– 6 (NKJV) (Animation) 5 Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; 6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To be in subjection to her husband. Colossians 3: 18 (NKJV) 18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To be in subjection to her husband. Titus 2: 5 (NKJV) 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To be in subjection to her husband. 1 Peter 3: 1 (NKJV) 1 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives,

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To be in subjection to her husband. Ephesians 5: 21 (NKJV) 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To be a companion to her husband. Genesis 2: 18 (NKJV) 18 And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him. ”

A Woman’s Role in the Home Men vs. Women: Similar, yet different.

A Woman’s Role in the Home • To respect her husband. Ephesians 5: 33 (NKJV) 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 1 Peter 3: 5– 7 (NKJV) (Animation) 5 … in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror. 7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

A Woman’s Role in the Home • Various responsibilities: • To be a positive example to others: Titus 2: 3– 5 (NKJV) 3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good,

A Woman’s Role in the Home • Various responsibilities: She will love her husband children and teach women younger than herself to do the same. Titus 2: 3– 5 (NKJV) 3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God

A Woman’s Role in the Home • Various responsibilities: She has the duty of being a homemaker. Titus 2: 3– 5 (NKJV) 3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be