Thursday, June 13, 2013

Purpose For My Blog


You claim the "clear" teachings of Scripture, and yet against strong biblical support for contrary views you defend your own with personal anecdotes and prooftexting. Seems it's less "Always Learning" and more affirming your current beliefs. 

But I don't blame you. After many years in the church, I blame the church itself, who teaches both men and women to parrot their lines without proper exegesis. This is what I take umbrage with.


I'll leave you with this: 1 Cor. 7:8. {I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I am.} It's right there, freeing women to reject marriage. You're free to tell women they CAN be homemakers. It's shameful and unbiblical to tell them they MUST.

These are the words of another reader upset with what I am teaching.  They forgot to add the verse right after verse 8, "But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."

The purpose of my blog is based upon Titus 2:4,5 "The aged women...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."

I have never stated that all women MUST be homemakers.  I am teaching what the Bible commands for me to teach.  Also, in the beginning, God knew it was not good for Adam to be alone so He created a help meet and commanded they be fruitful and multiply.  He said, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:  and they shall be one flesh."

God created marriage and it is good.  I have never personally met a woman who didn't want to be married.  I know there are some out there, nuns for instance, but the large majority want to be married and many want children.  This is who I am writing this blog for.

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Praying for you! Stay strong, keep posting what is in your heart from the Lord!!
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Don't let the comment get to you. Folk attack blogs like this that stand for truth and biblical discernment and learning. Stick to the race and keep on going!

Hugs!
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God bless you for continuing to allow yourself to be put in the line of fire. All the saints who have gone before you are cheering you on, and so am I.
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Hmmm... the verbiage of this reader's complaints is very familiar and I wouldn't be one bit surprised if it wasn't the same person I've recently seen arguing with the women on another homemaking site I love to read.

God bless you, Lori, for speaking the truth! Obviously you are having an impact!
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Hold fast. You're doing a great thing. :-)

(Even nuns want to be married. They fully consider themselves married to Jesus, which is what we all should be, right? So, I think it's completely true to say that everyone wants to be married!)
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I always appreciate your honesty and conviction to speak upon truth. You have nobody to explain yourself to. Maybe this individual is feeling something within herself speaking truth and she doesn't like it. Praying for her, for you, and all our sisters.
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Keri McPherson · 615 weeks ago

I appreciate you blog. Matter of fact, I love to read it. I felt convicted by the Holy Spirit ( not you as some might think) but The Lord himself. By reading your blog I felt like I too bought into what the world says to do and is right. I finally got divorced after a long abusive marriage. I the. Was a single Mom and worked for almost six years. I am now happily married to a godly man who is the sole breadwinner and I am the caregiver of two more children of whom I now homeschool. God has brought me a long way. I too feel my job is too stay at home and teach our children in the admonition of The Lord.
That is hard in today's society to get behind. But thank you so much for doin what your called to do! Keep on keeping on. God will bless you.
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I have a question for you. It's up to you if you feel it's appropriate to go public with it.

I grew up in an ideal Christian home. My parents never argued. They constantly look for ways to serve each other. Seven years ago I married a fine Christian man. We have tried to follow Gods plan for the home. It's definitely harder than it looks.

My husband's parents came to The Lord after he was born. (He is the oldest of 8) I love my in laws and they really do want the best for us, I believe. However my mother-in-law somehow feels it would make men proud to compliment them. I don't know if I have ever heard anything complimentary from her about my husband. My sisters-in-law are the same. They regularly bash him and their other brothers as well. They seem to have an extreme distrust of males. I feel at times like I am the only one who stands in his defence. He isn't perfect, but he does his best to be the man God wants him to be. So here is my question, how can I help my inlaws to view him( and the other men in the family) the way God wants us as Christian women to? When I reply with a compliment they twist into sarcasm. I know she loves her husband and sons, because whenever she thinks them out of earshot she speaks well of them. How can I help her show them that she loves them? How can I help my husband and his younger brothers believe that their mom does in fact love them? Sometimes I think she had a too big family. That maybe her love doesn't quite reach around for 8 children. It looks discouraging to us to have a large family. What if that happened to us, that our love wouldn't reach around and we wouldn't know that till its too late. About half of my husbands brothers and sisters are not Christians. So maybe having a big family isn't a good idea. I am quite confused.
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I am so thankful that you are willing to teach godly edifying of the family and a woman's role in the home. I am a homemaker and I find that it's exactly where God has placed me. Most of the women around me don't value this and I find your encouragement a huge comfort and strength in a world that no longer values this. God Bless!
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I wish I had this teaching 29 years ago when I got married. Thank you for sharing.
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All I have to say is "thank you!" We more voices like yours in the world today.
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As you stated, God said in Genesis that it is not good for man to be alone, and commanded them to be fruitful and multiply. Paul, in I Cor 7:8 is NOT giving a commandment, but a concession, as he states in I Cor 7:6.. In today's economy, how can a parent give their blessing to adult children to marry, if they have no job. How will they support themselves? During that time there was a great famine going on. Paul was suggesting that remaining single would be better at that time, as we married folks understand how spouses and children sometimes receive more time than God. 100 percent of their focus would have been on feeding themselves and their family, not God.

Far more importantly, God does not have a plan B, nor does he contradict Himself. So, if Paul was telling folks to NOT marry ever, he contradicted God in Genesis. And, Paul would never have done that.

Very few folks are truly singled out to do God's work, as Paul was. A modern example would be Mother Teresa. As children of God, we certainly must teach his word, but to use I Cor 7:8 as an excuse to stay single, well it just is not God's plan.

blessings to you Lori,
jill
How about 1 Tim 5:14?! That the younger widows (and the stress was on 'younger', so it could apply as well to 'women') marry, bear children, guide the home...? This is not a 'church''s fault...it is scripture!
Amen! Continue to speak what God has told you. The current situation of marriages today is a clear sign that the teachings that where needed years ago where non existent. If someone doesn't like what you teach, then let them not follow your blog. I enjoy you teachings and have passed them on to many! Be encouraged in the Lord today! :)
I absolutely love your blog and look forward to reading it every day! I love that you are telling us (me) how to be the best wife and mother that I can be and to be all God wants me to be. That being said I pray you will continue the good fight for all who want to learn.

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