If Christianity teaches that women are to be subordinate to men, then how should men take care of ensuring that women are properly "trained" to accept male leadership? Fortunately for godly men, there are plenty of ideas out there.
Theognome (via Too Much Coffee) writes:
The Why of Disciplining Your Wife
Men and women are different. Well, duh. Say something profound, why don’t I? But we often just gliss [sic] over what those most crucial differences are. Yes, men and women are different physically, and also men and women think differently. But what we often fail to recognize is than men and women sin differently. Men have sin struggles that are typical of men and almost alien to women. Likewise, women struggle with sins that men may not even recognize as being sin issues. Here’s a bare-bones sketch of the dynamics:
1. Women by their peculiar sin nature resist earthly authority and trust.
2. Women will seek earthly security at the expense of emotional and/or spiritual security.
Also:
Rebuke. This is the harshest discipline (outside of bringing the church elders into the picture) a husband should administer, and should ALWAYS be done privately and with godly, biblical love. Usually, exhortation would have already taken place before rebuke is done, but there may come situations where rebuke is the first step. Rebuke should be reserved for serious situations or where exhortation was not successful. Rebuke requires a very generous application of Scripture.
Isn't it curious that Theognome doesn't say anything about how wives should discipline husbands? Perhaps men are thought strong enough to take care of that themselves; the implication would be, of course, that women are weak and need guidance. This would be consistent with the idea that one of women's chief problems is their natural resistance to "earthly authority" (read: men).
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