Mark Driscoll-Stay-at-home-Dads
Do what you will with the “bad-boy grunge” image Mark Driscoll has.
I still admire his willingness to speak so boldly the truth of God’s Word. Gotta see this short clip!
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October 17, 2008 10:05 pm
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Wonderful. First time I’ve ever seen this man speak, but I love the frankness and boldness he puts forth while presenting the Truth of God. Thank you.
hmm, the link gave me a page load error – I’ll try again later.
His blog seems to be down a the moment??? Maybe it will up soon.
So glad to see more people catching on to Driscoll. He’s brilliant
That was a great little video- I am glad that you posted it!
I thought it was really interesting in the end when Mark talked about how he couldn’t imagine how different his children would be if his wife was not the one raising them and they were with someone else for the bulk of the day. What a true point!
I certainly want my husband and I to be the primary influence in our children’s lives- if God wanted someone else to raise our children he would have sent them into this world through another womb
Amy
LOVE Mark Driscoll and his wife!!!
He appeals to the younger 20′s but he is preaching the WORD! He and his wife are awesome! They are very big on biblical manhood and biblical womanhood.
I’ve been listening to Mark Driscoll for about 8-10 months now. I love that he reaches out to a “younger” crowd, but in no way changes what the word of God says. I also love that he delivers it in a way that you aren’t left wondering what he meant. He has a GREAT message on stewardship (go to the Mars Hill Church website and put in “Stewardship”). I believe the full title is Stewardship: God Gives.
Thank you for sharing!
WOW!! This is the second video from this series that I have seen, and I LOVE this guy!!!
WONDERFUL! Thank you for sharing.
Very good, thank you for sharing. I really like this guy and his wife.
Umm…does anyone here actual work through there Bible’s as Bereans and check to see if what he is saying is accurate according to it’s context? He took a verse completely out of context, and then his wife cited another (titus 2:5) which was written to a culture where about 85% of the economy was based out of the home (hence…”workers at home”). It appears that we are allowing an American evangelical proof-text to get in the way of truly understanding the Bible. Or should his wife have been teaching with him in the video with her head uncovered?
Carlton,
It’s really convenient to ascribe the commands of Scripture all to a “cultural limit”. However, there is nothing in Scripture that tells us the command to be Keepers at home is obselete for our day. In fact, it’s much more than one verse. The Bible is full of the principles of the wife and mother’s disctinctly different roles in marriage.
And if that weren’t enough, our common sense should be enough to show us the disaster of forsaking the truth of God’s Word.
Word Warrior,
First if you are going to have a debate, make sure you spell the person’s name correctly. Second, the housewife was a necessity as more then ten hours of labor went into just the preparation of food even into the 19th century. But no where does it say that the man is to be the king and the woman is to stay at home. In fact the often quoted Proverbs passage actually gives her more responsibility than we give wives today. In Middle Eastern culture, or the culture of the Bible, the wives worked harder than the husbands. Most husbands sat at home or with their friends, especially those of wealth, while the women did everything. All out of necessity for survival. Because the men were better than women. If I am having my wife stay-at-home, and I am an attorney, or banker, or sales rep, and I am working 60, 70, or 80 hours a week in order to keep up with my employers expectations, within which I neglect my wife, and children, because I am providing for them monetarily, is that a BiblicL man? Or is a Biblical man, one who loves his wife more than anything, does whatever is best for the family, trains up his children in the ways of the Lord, and sets an example in the way he lives? If you are going to say that you have to do both, tell that to all the churches that never preach on it. Tell that to the millions of women who attend church alone, because their husbands are working. Tell that to all the men in our American churches who care more about their retirement plans, the next promotion, and their Lexus, then whether their children are learning to pray, or read, or live in this world as disciples of Christ.
You say that if we do not obey the “biblical roles” set out for us in the Word it will be disastrous. Tell me…where are these roles helping the church in America? You listen to Driscoll or Hagee, and they berate men for being stay-at-home dads, but they never prech about how the Work-oriented society of America is ruining the church.
Oooh, Kelly I hadn’t seen this clip! Did he say “church discipline?” I didn’t know people still believed in such a thing anymore – awesome. So glad to have found this (almost a year late!).
Carleton,
“But no where does it say that the man is to be the king and the woman is to stay at home.”
Driscoll didn’t say this either. But he did say, as does the Bible, that a woman is to be keeper (manager, guard) of home and a man has a biblical duty to provide for his family’s needs. Get mad at it all day, but take it up with God, not me or others who repeat Scripture.
I don’t know about what men in different cultures do/did, but I know what the Bible says and believe it has the best plan for marriage.
I agree with you though, men are far too given to work beyond just the need to provide. I’m all for families moving toward a more balanced home-life incorporating family business and the wife helping with the income, as she is able, through home industry. We’re moving toward that and it is GREAT.
“Tell me…where are these roles helping the church in America?”
Your question is the most important question in the Christian community, I think. In fact, it is the very reason I started this blog. It’s not how the world is living that causes families and ultimately societies to self-destruct, it’s when the church is looking to the world for their standards of living instead of Scripture. We’ve bought all the same lies of success and “rights” and in our “freedom” have made the Bible little more than a book of suggestions. And I scratch my head and say, “Can’t we see what happens when we reject the simple wisdom of God’s Word?”
Has anyone heard of the study done on working women and their husbands. I heard of it over a year ago and will have to search the net for it, but the study showed that women who worked outside the home had higher testosterone levels than women who stayed at home and that the husbands of the working women had LOWER testosterone than the husbands of the stay at home women. I will search for the link and post it, but the point is that there are effects unseen from changing God’s obvious plan for women.
If you look at our biology we should be having babies, nursing, having more babies, nursing, having more babies and as a natural result we will be at home taking care of the home and the babies. Of course, there are natural consequences to not doing that, but a lot of people don’t want to go there…
I say, let families do what works best for them and stay out of it. The Bible doesn’t forbid women from working anymore than it forbids men from being primary caretakers of their kids.