The husband is lord of the home: Christ Church Idaho P/4

                                                      Read Part One HERE

                
In this post I will share my final story on abuse at Christ Church, Moscos, Idaho, USA, pastored by Doug Wilson.

One woman was councelled for hundreds of hours after which she was being suspended "from the Table of the Lord" until she confessed and repented after leaving it up to her husband to clean and prepare food, putting her kids in daycare and "ignoring the God given roles" including submission.

Another woman, Cori Philips, a home schooling mother of 10 children who attended Providence Church, the church planted by Doug Wilson's brother Gordon, was cast as a dangerous woman by a church leader when Mrs Philips began to raise concerns about Doug Wilson's blog to her church leaders and on Facebook.

Doug Wilson has written in his book Reforming Marriage, "Wives need to be led with a firm hand" and "It is tragic that wholesale abdication on the part of modern man has made the idea of lordship in the home such a laughable thing." In "Federal Husband," Doug Wilson asserts that men must assume full spiritual responsibility for the household, including any wifely negligence to submit in "spending habits, television viewing habits, weight, rejection of his leadership, laziness in cleaning the house, lack of responsiveness to sexual advances." Such a husband must confess failure in leading his wife, outline clear expectations, and repeatedly point out her failures. If she complies, "He must move up a step, requiring another of her duties be done." If she continues to rebel, it's appropriate to call in the church elders.