True Role of the Christian Woman
Here is another question posed to me from my in real life friend and my response.
Do you feel the true role for a Christian woman is within the home, with her children and homeschooling them?
Titus 2:4-5 Speaks to this, women are to be keepers at home or workers at home. This does not mean that they cannot do other things even the Proverbs 31 woman ran a business but her priority and her base of operations was within her home.
Also Psalm 128:3
As to the homeschooling issue, I believe that as a Christian parent it is part of my duty as a mother. Parents are responsible for their children and their training. Christian parents are to raise them in the training and admonition of the Lord. We will be held accountable for what we have done with the blessings God bestows upon us.
Deuteronomy 6:4-7 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
This encompasses every aspect of life, at all times and in all things. I do not believe this can be fully accomplished if the responsibility is abdicated to others and children are put under the authority of those who disagree with the biblical approach to every aspect of life or are obligated to teach using a secular curriculum with a humanistic and atheistic approach. We have in the past used Christian Schools but have first evaluated if they are indeed Christian at the core and not as a side note, so to speak. There truly is no real neutrality. Here is a quote from a book I have read recently, it gives a good summary. This is enough to propel me to move forward and count the rewards when I am feeling overwhelmed. It is what God has called me to do as a Christian mother.
The biblical mind is not compartmentalized into two distinct areas of though: secular and sacred. All of life is under the authority of God’s revealed Word, and children were to be taught in terms of this comprehensive authority all the time.
from: Standing on the Promises by Doug Wilson
This is what the Lord has shown me in his Word with the confirmation of his Spirit.
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February 5th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Amen! I totally agree. Wonderful gracious reply.
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February 5th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
I have seen some families successfully raise children without homeschooling them and yet, particularly when I consider the Deuteronomy passage and the importance of passing on a biblical worldview to our children, I wonder, how can it be done if the children are away from the home the majority of the day?
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February 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Well said. Love it.
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February 5th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I am appreciating your gracious answers to these oft asked questions. Thankyou. To Rebecca, we have to remember that God saves and not us via homeschooling. We do what we believe we are commanded, but sometimes home trained kids walk astray, and sometimes against the “odds” kids educated in public schools are graciously saved. May God grant us the wisdom and strength to train them up in the His ways.
February 14th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
What a blessed reminder, Ruby! I often tremble and cry at my glaring weaknesses in mothering. My hope and comfort is that He alone saves and He alone placed each of us in this family! Including me! Praise Him for His goodness and grace!
February 18th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I totally agree!
Thanks for sharing this with us. I enjoy reading your answers to questions I am often asked as well (and probably don’t answer half as graciously).
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