A man who is going to stand up for the women on here

My Pastor is having problems with his mortgage pmt. And so when I hear sermons with regard to the tithe I become skeptical.

 

Some people seem to see problems where there are none.

 

good heavens. This stuff will never end.

I work now because I am called to work with children. I volunteered with children and did contract work before my kids were grown.

I do appreciate the men on this board who treat women like they are supposed to use the brains that were put in their heads.

Calling Mexdeaf a brawler struck me as odd because I've never thought of him as anything but wonderful - as I do many others here.

 

Good comments by MCDirector. My wife is a math teacher, and was so when we got married. We have no children together (although I have children from a prior marriage). It's unreasonable for me to tell her she must give up her job, which, btw is her ministry. The only time it would be an issue is if her job were morally causing strife in the home, which it's not. In fact, it contributes to serenity in the home and in our marriage.

 

No the median income in my part of the country is 50k. You must live in Manhattan or something. Most parts of the country is equivelant with where I live.

 

Very true. Sad really. However, because of certain things like this my wife wants us to consider moving churches. I'm struggling with this because of all the years and ministries we've been involved in. But that's another thread.

 

johnv, where did you get this quote from Paul ? I got cross-eyed looking for this phrase in this thread and couldn't find it.
At any rate, it is not a very kind thing to say, not that I am one of the "tails", but sometimes it is practical for a wife to work, and there is nothing in Scripture I know of or remember where the word specifically tells women are not to help their men earn bread for the table.
I think it is when women work so that they can get what they want rather than what they need that a problem may be pointed at, but even so, that is between them and their God.
I don't have any skills that most men on this board have. I'm not a carpenter, an engineer, a cement worker, or anything. I'm not a professional.
I'm not a high school graduate, and I only have a GED which I got here in the States, and the only reason my wife married me back in 1969 is because she thought I was cute (my mother agreed with her, you know, but they're just about the two women in this God's earth that think so, even now).
Now, my wife, she's a college graduate. Bachelor of Arts, Home Economics, and she has talent. She can sew clothes, any garment, any fabric, on any build of a woman, and that talent helped us through the years raising a family.
Matter of fact, that talent brought her all the way from rundown Philippines to Saudi Arabia to the United States of America, and I'm darn proud of her, and even today, with both of us in our 60's you can't make her siddown and not work because she and I have been working all our lives, and the good Lord has been kind enough to spare us from major illnesses from our youth to just about a few years ago.
I'm darned proud of my wife, and unashamed that she had to help me out, and I'm darned proud of any woman, in Christ or out of Christ, and Christian women who work in support of their husbands, whether in the ministry or not, are, in my humble opinion, strong women and are in no violation of Scriptures.

 

Hey PB! It's been removed. (post 37 I think is where it was). I came close to referencing it myself because I thought it an odd picture.

 

oh, okay, thanks, bitsy.
nice to hear from you.
take care, God bless.

 

This is a compare and contrast thread. On one hand you have the bed wetting liberal baptist and on the other you have the insulting, in your face, judgmental pharisee baptist.

 

can you elucidate this for this poor simian ?
thank you.

 

Obsessed with primates lately aren't you Pinoy? :laugh:

 

I just find them to be expressive beings, Amy.G.

 

They are that! They make me laugh!