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Christian Woman
Wife
Question | Answer |
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Qualities of a Christian Wife (15) | personal relationship with God; affectionate; good self-image; submissive; patient; loyal; right priorities; meet physical needs; zest for living; unselfish; homemaker; good attitude; not materialistic; sense of humor; outside interest |
Characteristics of a Christian Wife | submission; affectionate/love; joy; physical needs |
Who is our example of submission? | Sarah (Gen. 12); was submissive; was not a doormat |
Thoughts of submission from John Kachelman, Jr. | prompted by the man's love; is a voluntary response; is 'fitting in the Lord' (1 Cor. 11:3); is neither the husband's license for demanding orders, nor is it relegating the wife to a position of servitude that is humiliating and demeaning |
"To be loved is a great liberating force..I was given confidence, strength, and almost a new character. The man I was to marry believed in me and what I could do, and I found I could do more than I realized..." | Anne Morrow Lindburgh Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead |
Affectionate/love | Titus 2:4 love is not a passive thing one 'falls into.' It is a decision made every day. |
Agape | serving love; goes on even when there is not response; unconditional; full of grace |
Philia | friendship love; love between friends; love to reach out to someone at a distance |
Eros | passionate love; passion, longing, craving between a man and woman; endorsed within the covenant of marriage; needs agape and philia with it |
Racham | kinship love; tenderness one has for members of her family |
Ahaba | courting love; makes us feel wanted; normal word for the love in marriage |
Hesed | covenant love; love par excellence; keeps the covenant made between partners; love + loyalty |
Definitions are not comprehensive because.... | agape = philia; ahaba -> agape; all of these 'loves' are needed in a marriage |
Mrs. Noah | She stood by him for 120 years while he built the ark and preached; only the family was saved. |
Sapphira | Warning to women about the love of money; 'conspired;' sin of deception/lying to the Holy Spirit |
Delilah | Samson was physically strong but morally weak; she deceived him; betrayed him for money |
Job's wife | lost everything; spoke foolishly; Satan's helper |
The chief emotional need | Woman: to love; men: to be admired and appreciated; love each other with all the types of love |
The most common cause of an affair according to Charles Mylander | Neglect |
Build a wall around your spouse by... | loving him well |
"No other quality can do so much to ensure a happy marriage as a happy disposition." | Schlafly on joy |
Christian Joy | Is not subject to the circumstances in which we find ourselves |
Speaking on Christian Joy..."A thermostat not a thermometer." | Wiersbe |
"The wife who complains that the world is treating her shabbily, that her wardrobe is too skimpy, that her cares are too many, and her pleasures too few, is but adding to the motional strain under which the husband may rebel at any time." | "Why Don't Women Keep Their Men?" by E. Johnson |
Show Christian joy by... | greet your husband with a smile; learn to live within his income; have the kind of joy that makes the home a place to which he will be glad to come |
Physical needs verses... | Gen. 2:18 - not good for man to be alone; Prov. 5:18 - let wife be one who satisifies 1 Cor. 7:4 - man has authority of woman's body; woman has authority over man Hebs 13:4 - marriage bed undefiled |
"The deepest happiness can be found in this, that each finds in the other partner, God's gift." | Velder |
C's Needed in Marriage (3) | Courtesy, council, consideration |