God-given femininity: Value it, Kassian says
[Ed. Note: The document "I Will Bless You and You Will Be a Blessing" produced to support an affirmative vote on the same-gender commitment ceremony will be presented to the General Convention next week. I believe that document devalues the differences intended and created by God, between the two sexes. The feminist action in society since the early '70's has moderated the way women feel about themselves, both as individuals and as partners in marriage. This article talks about the wonderful aspects of being a woman. I have personally fought the same battles described as I worked with my husband as a clergy wife. I found resonance in the excerpt of the article below.(deleted meeting notes and news) Cheryl M. Wetzel]
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38154
The Baptist Press, June 28, 2012
A sold-out crowd of 1,800 ministers’ wives heard Mary Kassian speak on “The Hidden Person of the Heart,” drawing from 1 Peter 3, at their luncheon during the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in New Orleans.
Kassian, a women’s studies professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a national speaker for “True Women” conferences, admitted that 1 Peter 3, where wives are instructed to quietly submit to their husbands, was not her favorite part of Scripture when she was in her 20s. Reading it, she said, was like “sticking my face in a bucket of worms.”
As she has grown in the Lord, Kassian said her views have changed to where she sees “great gems” in the passage for those who are co-laboring with their husbands in the ministry.
Kassian, whose husband is a chaplain for the Canadian Football League, shared three ways wives can use their femininity to help, rather than hinder, their husbands in ministry.
First, be winsome, Kassian said.
“The most effective way to help your husband be on the right track is for you to work hard for you to be on the right track.”
The enemy of winsomeness is the tongue, Kassian said, cautioning, “A woman’s word can be the undoing of the man.”
Second, be womanly.
“Embracing your femininity is not about fitting a cookie-cutter mold,” Kassian said. “It’s about being the woman God created you to be — a beautiful, God-glorifying woman.”
Noting that issues of gender, sexuality and marriage are threatening what it means to be male and female, Kassian urged the women to be counter-intuitive and embrace the power of being a woman.
“Your husband needs you to be a woman — his wife — not his mother or one of the guys. When you are the woman God has called you to be, he can be the man God called him to be.”
Finally, be unwavering.
“These womanly traits are very precious in God’s eyes,” Kassian said. Through them, “we shine a light on the Gospel and on Jesus Christ.”
The Lord’s way may seem counter-intuitive, but “it is the way that will bring most fulfillment,” she said.
Kassian is the author of “The Feminist Mistake,” “Girls Gone Wise” and most recently an eight-week study on biblical womanhood, “True Woman 101: Divine Design,” coauthored with Nancy Leigh DeMoss.
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Shannon Baker is the national correspondent for BaptistLIFE
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38154
The Baptist Press, June 28, 2012
A sold-out crowd of 1,800 ministers’ wives heard Mary Kassian speak on “The Hidden Person of the Heart,” drawing from 1 Peter 3, at their luncheon during the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in New Orleans.
Kassian, a women’s studies professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a national speaker for “True Women” conferences, admitted that 1 Peter 3, where wives are instructed to quietly submit to their husbands, was not her favorite part of Scripture when she was in her 20s. Reading it, she said, was like “sticking my face in a bucket of worms.”
As she has grown in the Lord, Kassian said her views have changed to where she sees “great gems” in the passage for those who are co-laboring with their husbands in the ministry.
Kassian, whose husband is a chaplain for the Canadian Football League, shared three ways wives can use their femininity to help, rather than hinder, their husbands in ministry.
First, be winsome, Kassian said.
“The most effective way to help your husband be on the right track is for you to work hard for you to be on the right track.”
The enemy of winsomeness is the tongue, Kassian said, cautioning, “A woman’s word can be the undoing of the man.”
Second, be womanly.
“Embracing your femininity is not about fitting a cookie-cutter mold,” Kassian said. “It’s about being the woman God created you to be — a beautiful, God-glorifying woman.”
Noting that issues of gender, sexuality and marriage are threatening what it means to be male and female, Kassian urged the women to be counter-intuitive and embrace the power of being a woman.
“Your husband needs you to be a woman — his wife — not his mother or one of the guys. When you are the woman God has called you to be, he can be the man God called him to be.”
Finally, be unwavering.
“These womanly traits are very precious in God’s eyes,” Kassian said. Through them, “we shine a light on the Gospel and on Jesus Christ.”
The Lord’s way may seem counter-intuitive, but “it is the way that will bring most fulfillment,” she said.
Kassian is the author of “The Feminist Mistake,” “Girls Gone Wise” and most recently an eight-week study on biblical womanhood, “True Woman 101: Divine Design,” coauthored with Nancy Leigh DeMoss.
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Shannon Baker is the national correspondent for BaptistLIFE
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