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By Wayne Grudem
I will not think a extra relavant e-book for busy pastors than this. there's condensed knowledge to be came across right here from those that have evidently wrestled with the various matters that face us nowadays. The editors asume that faithfulness to scripture concerning manhood and womanhood is itself 'leadership'. For this method many can be thankful. a number of skilled individuals offer extra tham dialogue. They lead us to sensible assist in each quarter tackled. Many less than sheperds will obtain a lot assistance contained in those pages. This and the better half quantity 'Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood' are either crucial analyzing for church leaders at the present time.
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He lay beside her snoring like a hibernating bear, unaware of her winter. Once . . he wanted to tell her how afraid he was of dying. But fearing to show his naked soul, he spoke instead about . . [her] beauty. . She took a course in modern art, trying to find herself in colors splashed about on canvass, complaining to other women about men who were insensitive. He climbed into a tomb called the office, wrapped his mind in a shroud of paper figures, and buried himself in customers. Slowly the wall between them rose, cemented by the mortar of indifference.
The decision was made, in a way, 42 years ago when I promised to care for Muriel “in sickness and in health . . ” So, as I told the students and faculty, as a man of my word, integrity has something to do with it. But so does fairness. She has cared for me fully and sacrificially all these years; if I cared for her for the next 40 years I would not be out of debt. Duty, however, can be grim and stoic. But there is more; I love Muriel. She is a delight to me—her childlike dependence and confidence in me, her warm love, occasional flashes of that wit I used to relish so, her happy spirit and tough resilience in the face of her continual distressing frustration.
Men would not really understand what that is all about. However, men do gauge their own self-worth very often by what they do for a living. Furthermore, failure at one’s occupational assignment can be absolutely devastating to a man’s self-worth. I might add at this point, if and when a man loses his job, it is an especially crucial time for a woman to step in and affirm him and let him know that she still values him above all other men. We see this truth reiterated again and again in the Song of Solomon as the Shulammite woman praises Solomon in every imaginable way.