This blogger wants women to stop submitting to men. No, it isn't quite what you think, but the blogger, Russell D. Moore, is right on IMO. Here is a snippet from the post. The link is below. Please do read the entire post.
Sisters, you owe no submission to Hollywood or to Madison Avenue, or to those who listen to them. Your worth and dignity cannot be defined by them. Stop comparing yourselves to supermodels and porn stars. Stop loathing your body, or your age. Stop feeling inferior to vaporous glamor. You are beautiful.
Sisters, there is no biblical category for “boyfriend” or “lover,” and you owe such designation no submission. In fact, to be submissive to your future husband you must stand back and evaluate, with rigid scrutiny, “Is this the one who is to come, or is there another?” That requires an emotional and physical distance until there is a lifelong covenant made, until you stand before one who is your “own husband.
Here is the link to the entire post: http://www.russellmoore.com/2011/12/05/women-stop-submitting-to-men/
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i just had a conversation about this about being submissive. you are completely right about saving submissiveness for your husband because its a vow sealed God protected monogamous relationship where at the others are of the flesh if God is not between you and the other person.
I am reading the Purpose Driven Life By Rick Warren and here are some notes that i have taken from the 10th Chapter (The Heart of Worship)
Response to being Submissive
1. That victory comes through surrender
2. Everybody eventually surrenders to something or someone. If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others; money resentment, fear, your own pride, lusts, ego
a. You were designed to worship; God
3. You are free to choose what you surrender to, but you are not free from the consequences of that choice
4. The greatest hindrance to God's blessing in your life is not others, its yourself
5. Surrendering is not just a one time event -> there is a moment of surrender and there is a practice of surrender which is moment by moment and lifelong
6. Lastly…. I looked up Submissive in a student bible dictionary and noticed that a lot of men and women focus a lot on the submissiveness of a woman's role in a relationship/marriage but don’t acknowledge what a man is called to do by God as a husband/man in a relationship
graceliving,
Thank you very much for your additions to my post. The list is great!!
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