DO WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDIES CONTRIBUTE TO DIVORCE?
Do Women’s Bible Studies Contribute to Divorce? – The Transformed Wife
The Transformed Wife – Do Women’s Bible Studies Contribute to Divorce? – The Transformed Wife
· Women tend to empathize with women when they tell their side of the story in their marriage. They automatically believe the women without hearing the other side. Instead of doing all they can to encourage women to go to spiritual battle for their marriages, they often recommend divorce.
DO WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDIES CONTRIBUTE TO DIVORCE?
June 5, 2024 Lori Alexander Comments 3 Comments
Brian Suave wrote some wise words on his social media sites:
“God gave an office in the church for the doctrinal instruction of men and women: The Pastor. This office is to be held exclusively by men. We don’t need elaborate parallel systems of doctrinal instruction for women led by women. We need competent pastors.
“Godly women are to love their husbands and children, run the affairs of the house, and quietly submit to the teaching of their husbands and pastors. By this means, she will be richly equipped in the faith. She will not be ignorant and unschooled, but trained well. Women’s small groups and Bible studies are the root of countless issues in the church.
“Just one recent example:
“I met a man whose wife abruptly divorced him some years ago, apostatized, and began to brainwash his children. Guess what else happened? Four to six women in the same small group at the same church all divorced their husbands as well. When you reject God’s order for the home, church, and commonwealth, terrible things happen. They will continue to happen as long as we are spineless on this issue.”
I attended a Bible study at a local church nearby. Almost every woman in my small group was divorced. It’s hard to teach women to not divorce their husbands. Most don’t want to do the hard work of 1 Peter 3:1-6 and try to win their husbands. There are no female preachers who are teaching this, nor do any Women’s Bible Studies. Women tend to empathize with women when they tell their side of the story in their marriage. They automatically believe the women without hearing the other side. Instead of doing all they can to encourage women to go to spiritual battle for their marriages, they often recommend divorce.
Biblically qualified men in the churches are to be the ones teaching those in the congregation as God’s Word clearly teaches. If women have a question, they are to ask their husbands at home. They are also to learn biblical womanhood from godly, older women. This is God’s will, and it’s perfect!
From my many years of attending Women’s Bible Studies, conferences, and my own observation, these seem to lead women to divorce their husbands rather than strengthening marriages because they teach women the Bible without ever teaching biblical womanhood (which is exactly what God commands older women to teach younger women in Titus 2:3-5). Therefore, women become more “spiritual” in their minds and think they’re superior to their husbands. Their husbands are falling far short of where they think they should be, so they falsely believe they have reason to pursue divorce.
“There are a number of toxic and unbiblical ideologies that circulate in women’s ‘Bible’ studies and groups. They’re rarely studying the actual Bible; it’s some other book claimed to be Christian. If we let women have a separate and parallel church without oversight by the qualified church elders, this is bound to happen. What ends up happening is that women’s groups have no accountability from the church leadership and often not even from their own husbands, and they diverge into error. This is especially true when the books and materials marketed to Christian women today are nearly all heretical and emotional nonsense. The errors get perpetuated and repeated until most women don’t even realize that the ideas they got ‘in church’ have no basis in the Bible and are not true.” (Lindsay Harold)
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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