There’s a Passivity Pandemic happening in men today when it comes to leading their families and discipling their children in the faith. While husbands are responsible, there’s a lot the wife can do to support, after all; two become one flesh in marriage. You will also see a spontaneous inside look into Isaac and Angie’s marriage as they discuss these things in their own lives including the day this episode was shot. Isaac goes in depth on what keeps men passive and how you can overcome it, they both talk about lies men and women believe, biblical roles, and end with an unprecedented time’s tip that’s a powerful charge to seriously consider who you are surrounding yourselves with. Listen to this, then listen again with your spouse and talk through it.
Main Points From This Episode:
- What are the masculinity wounds most men need to overcome
- Why men are guarded spiritually
- When do healthy expectations from the wife become guilt and shame that further detracts from men leading?
- Navigating biblical gender roles
- What should the wife do when her husband isn’t leading?
- What are the common lies men and women are believing that hurt their marriage and family.
- Why the community you have around you is crucial. Men need positive pressure to rise up!
Scriptures From This Episode:
– 1 Coorinthians 16:13-14 – “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.“
– James 4:17 – “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.“
– Ephesians 5:22-24 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.“
– 1 Peter 3:1-7 – “Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”
– Philippians 3:17 – “Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.“
– Proverbs 1:8 – “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,”
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