Materialism and Working Mothers

Materialism and Working Mothers

Another key factor in the weakening of churches over the past 60 years is the breakdown of the home, and one of the chief causes of this is the frenzied pursuit of wealth and comfort with the accompanying phenomenon of working mothers. During World War II, women entered the work force in great numbers because so many men were fghting overseas. (Tis phenomenon had begun in World War I, but it exploded in World War II.) When the war ended, the trend toward working moms did not stop. Instead of being content with living on the father’s paycheck while the mothers attended to the essential business of keeping the home and caring for the children, mothers and fathers both entered the work force. Tis was direct and brazen disobedience to God’s Word, and it was evidence that many homes and churches were following society rather than Scripture. “Tat they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed” (Titus 2:4-5). Te working mother phenomenon lef children without close parental supervision and training, and the devil has flled the void. Ron Williams, founder of Hephzibah House in Winona Lake, Indiana, has many decades of experience working with troubled children from Christian homes. He issues the following warning: “Small wonder many children and young people forge such strong loyalties to peers even though they are an adverse infuence on them. In the absence of a full-time mother, a child will naturally seek guidance, companionship and fulfllment from another source. Loyalties that should have been cemented with his parents and family are instead farmed out to evil-charactered peers readily provided by a satanically-dominated world. Mom, your children need you, 449not a surrogate hireling. You cannot be replaced by another. God has called you to be a ‘keeper at home,’ not to stunt your creativity or imprison you in an unfulflling, demeaning role, but because you have been called to the high and noble office of a homemaker; a responsibility with unmeasureable rewards, heavy demands, great fulfllment, and inestimable blessing for you, your husband, and your children.” If a married woman doesn’t have children or if her children are grown or if she can work part time without causing any harm to her family, that is a different situation.

I have been looking for a good book written by a Christian on the subject of the problems in the modern church today, especially in the area of the effect of feminism! Well here it is ….

Cultural Factors in the Weakening of Churches

Following are some of the factors that have weakened the character of Bible-believing churches over the past 70 years and

helped create a mixed multitude philosophy.

Theological Liberalism

The Public School System

Materialism and Working Mothers

The Rock & Roll Pop Culture

Pop Psychology

The Feminist Movement

Self-Esteemism

New Evangelicalism

Television

The Internet

What is the real problem? How can it be fixed? Whose responsibility is it?

It needs to start in the Churches, with Professing Christians, Pastors and Leaders.   We are a big part of the problem and here is why!  And here is a solution to follow!

Page 444, “The Discipling Church:  The Church That Will Stand until Jesus Comes”.  David W. Cloud

https://www.wayoflife.org/publications/books/the-discipling-church.php