When Dr. David Livingstone was working in Africa, a group of friends wrote him: "We would like to send other men to you. Have you found a good road into your area yet?" According to a member of his family, Dr. Livingstone sent this message in reply: "If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
Well, Jesus said the best we could hope for in this life would be to be called an unworthy servant.
I haven't asked Him yet whether or no I can call myself 'most holy servant' or most reverend servant'. I have a feeling He'll say no..
When Dr. David Livingstone was working in Africa, a group of friends wrote him: "We would like to send other men to you. Have you found a good road into your area yet?" According to a member of his family, Dr. Livingstone sent this message in reply: "If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 26, 2005 9:28:34 GMT -5
Bee said:
To be an ATM machine?
LOL
1 Cor. 6:9a,11 (KJV) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
I agree with what Krazeeboy mentioned: it's a very good start! However, how is every part manifested and implemented in the day to day life of a Christian married couple? It is a process... How does a couple mature together until all is in order?
Post by elderbeck NSI on Feb 23, 2006 13:38:18 GMT -5
beulah5 said:
what then
U trying to destroy my theology Beck? ;D
A man gotta provide or else Bee cannot get with him
nah sister Bee, I aint trying to mess up your thing..lol. A man gotta take care of his home or else.. but a sista gotta let him do what he has to do ...
I don't see a problem if the woman works outside the home and the man works in the home. Each marriage is different and what may work for one may not work for another. What we do know is that the hubsnads are to love their wives and the wives are to submit to their own husband.
That's like if the woman may have a higher education level and be able to make more money than the man but they both don't want their children in daycare. Is it more right for:
1) The woman to stay home and the man work so many hours to provide that he spends barely no time with the wife or child and still are just trying to make ends meet
2) Both parents work, put their child in daycare anyways although that was not what they wanted to do?
OR
3) The woman works, the man watches the child, etc. and they are able to have a comfortable living.
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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Can a man truly be 'head of his home' if he aint working and putting money on the table?
I think any woman or children will have a hard time honouring and esteeming a permanent 'house husband'.
Being a provider brings authority. God was not just talking out of the air when He said that a man must work.
Women were also designed to be receivers and that includes being looked after by the man.
Fine both can work but a man who wont work and is actually very comfortable lounging at home permanently worries me.
It is better for a man to be out there making less than his wife could be but retaining his dignity rather than have a hydra headed home.
Money gives u a voice-everyone knows that and that applies to the home as well. How can u command any authority when evryone knows that down to the laces on ur shoes it is ur wife who paid?
God forbid
"Faith is the audacity that rejoices in the fact that God cannot break His own Word." Smith Wigglesworth