The husband takes pride in his strength: Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth P/4

                                                      Read Part One HERE

 In this post I continue to focus on bible teacher and author Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth. She is on the Board of Reference of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood as well as on the Board of Reference of Joyful Christian Ministries, a ministry founded by the wife and daughters of fundamental Baptist pastor and evangelist John R. Rice, including his daughter Elizabeth Rice Handford who wrote the book "Me? Obey Him?"

We will continue looking at some statements from the book as follows

  "When you give back to your husband the responsibility for the direction of the home and the making of decisions, you also give him the responsibility for the consequences of his decisions.... Fortunately, that's the way a man likes it. God made a man to be aggressive, to respond to challenge, to glory in his manhood, to rejoice in draining his strength, to risk great hazards for the one he loves. It is his very aggressiveness that a woman sometimes finds frightening, simply because she is a woman. She doesn't have confidence in her physical strength, in her ability to cope with danger, in her decision-making ability. It is a privilege unearned, for a woman to have a man take upon himself her welfare." (P.56).

My Comment 

In Genesis 1:26-28 we read that God gave both the man and the woman the task of ruling over Creation. That has never changed so it is not only the man who is responsible for the direction of the home. Both the man and the woman are responsible for the direction of the home and make decisions for it as a team under the Lordship of Christ!! His and her confidence in their ability to make right decisions is not in themselves but in the Lord that He will give them wisdom to make the right decisions when they prayerfully seek Him. As for any man to be aggressive and to glory in his manhood, any male believer is to glory in the cross of the of Christ as Paul wrote in Galatians 6:14

May I never boast (glory) except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. 

As for a woman to have a man take upon himself her welfare, a wife is to be a husband's  "ezer kenegdo" or "equal partner" according to Genesis 2:18 and not a"welfare" project.

P.S. I believe that Nancy Leigh Demoss Wolgemuth, though not the author of the book "Me? Obey him?", will be in agreement with what is written in it since she is a member of the Board of Reference of Joyful Christian Ministries, the ministry that was set up by the wife and daughters of fundamental Baptist pastor and evangelist John R. Rice, one of whose daughters is Elizabeth Rice Handford.            In my next post I will begin to focus on statements from Nancy Leigh Demoss Wolgemuth's book "Lies Women believe."

Read Part Five HERE