September 09, 2014
Male violence against women is a real problem in our culture, one the church must address. Our responsibility here is not simply at the level of social justice but at the level of ecclesical justice as well.
We must teach from our pulpits, our Sunday school classes, and our Vacation Bible Schools that women are to be cherished, honored, and protected by men. This means we teach men to reject American playboy consumerism in light of a Judgment Seat at which they will give account for their care for their families. It means we explicitly tell the women in our congregations, “A man who hits you has surrendered his headship, and that is the business both of the civil state in enacting public justice and of this church in enacting church discipline.”
Church discipline against wife-beaters must be clear and consistent. We must stand with women against predatory men in all areas of abandonment, divorce, and neglect. We must train up men, through godly mentoring as well as through biblical instruction, who will know that the model of a husband is a man who crucifies his selfish materialism, his libidinal fantasies, and his wrathful temper tantrums in order to care lovingly for a wife. We must also remind these young men that every idle word, and every hateful act, will be laid out in judgment before the eyes of the One to whom we must give an answer.
In the public arena, Christians as citizens should be the most insistent on legal protections for women. We should oppose a therapeutic redefinition of wife abuse as merely a psychological condition. And we should call on the powers-that-be to prosecute abusers of women and children in ways that will deter others and make clear society’s repugnance at such abuse.
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SOURCE: Moore to the Point – Russell D. Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
They should teach women to submit to and love their husbands and to take care of their children, that would have the same effect and be more consistent with Biblical framework. Too many women in the church today are feminists and have fallen for the spirit if the age and have become anything but the dutiful wife as shown in Scripture. Instead of coming uo with a “new plan” to fix men, how about going back to the original plan of teaching women submission? Many of the things that cause tension within a family that would ultimately result in violence would simply cease to exist.
Let’s hope it isn’t Christians beating their wives ! Maybe he’s talking about moslems!
The culture that rejects Jesus and his teachings, is responsible for this violence against women. Sheet the blame and guilt back on to the unbelievers- not the Church.! There is no logic to this article,- never mind spiritual discernment.!
Sorry but this article is wrong on so many levels!
FAMILY VIOLENCE KNOWS NO GENDER!
My father was abused emotionally and physically by my mother for many years,culminating in her making false allegations of domestic violence against him and tearing us away from him.
Now i have grown up and live with my dad and realise what a manipulative liar mum was,which still has me and my siblings on anti-depressants.
sHE USED TO FORCE US TO LIVE WITH HER “BOYFRIEND” WHO ABUSED US REPEATEDLY.
One only needs to look at recent events in CCAIRNS,and bays thrown down drains,to realise MAJORITY OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IS COMMITED BY WOMEN.