J.L. Allen
Puritan Board Sophomore
My wife is a faithful woman to God’s Word. She joyfully submits to my headship yet never fails to remind me that this is for Christ’s sake. When I lose sight of the cross and wallow in my misery, she is ever ready with Scripture on her lips. My wife works hard and keeps our house in good order. My four children are loved and guided to Christ at every turn. She’s incredibly intelligent and often helps me see what, being clear to her and of no mystery, I struggle to understand. All this to say, I fully support any man, woman, or child receiving an education in the ways of good doctrine. She’s better able to be ready to give an answer and to teach women younger in the faith by being more knowledgeable in theology. My wife will not be a victim to shallow or heretical women’s “ministries” so prevalent in our society. She will not be the person in the pew that, like so much of evangelicalism, is never able to ingest anything more than milk (skim milk at best). I, as her husband, would not allow that to be her example to our daughters.Titus 2:1-5
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
@nickipicki123
Nicki,
I believe Blake was making the point that woman are generally called to be homemakers.