Mike
One verse God impressed upon me shortly after I became a christian was
Ephesians 6 12, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark
world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms". The
only thing I can say to your wife is, "Why let bickering people (even
christians) stand between you and a relationship with the living God. Taste
and see that the Lord is good or Don't knock it until you've tried it."
Love
BoW.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [RR] CAUTION
> In a message dated 10/2/00 6:35:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> >
> > > The narrow minds would rather have the gals
> > > barefoot and pregnet doing the dishes at home. Today that is a little
> > > backwards,
> >
> > So how far do we go? Why not just let our wives work and support us so
we
> > can stay home? It's only backwards by the worlds standards - my wife
> > proudly
> > stays home, has bore 4 children and rarely puts shoes on except to leave
> > the
> > house!!! <VBG> :>)
> >
> > I prefer narrow minded...
> >
> > Michael
> >
>
> You know what folks? It is arguments like this as to why my wife won't
> give her life to Christ. She sees all of this wrangling and back and
forth.
> We were both raised that marriage is an equal partnership with neither one
> being better than the other. She feels that this whole thing is a bunch
of
> hokey. Yes, she reads my emails and these lead her farther and farther
away.
>
> I consider myself very thankful that I'm even still around. A fellow
> Ranger had hurt both of us pretty deeply and at that point I almost just
quit
> it all together because it was dumb. The whole situation was dumb. She is
> not as supportive as she was before that activity happened and she feels
that
> it is just dumb. She wants to know why the women get mistreated in
Rangers
> and maligned she wants to know why no one just moves on.
> Where is the witness folks? I ask because I don't see it. If we are
> supposed to REACH Teach and Keep then why are we repelling people and
chasing
> them away? I mean what we are actually teaching them is that we don't know
> how to settle differences and come to any conclusions. This is what the
> people see and our slogan is just a contradiction in terms. Reasons like
> this, I now know I can never count on her help in Rangers because she
feels
> that it is sexist. She told me that if we ever had a son he will not be a
> part of it because those values are not what she wants in a son. Me
> personally, I want what the Rangers originally taught but I can't teach
them
> because that is contrary to how it really is. Everyone is talking the
talk
> but not walking the walk. How can you witness to someone if your actions
> can't back it up? This whole thing is hokey. She wants to know why
everyone
> has a holier than thou attitude and why everyone is too pompous to see
past
> their noses?
> This is the witness she has seen of Rangers not that of servitude or
> humility. The pastor preaches on Sunday and she hears what he said but
she
> doesn't believe him because no one has ever been sincere about it infront
of
> her except for the pastor, when she even comes to church.
> Getting her support for Ranger activities is really hard. I remain
> committed to what the core program was all about but when it starts
getting
> distracted by this arguing over women stuff, I am going to bail out
because
> it is a bunch of nonsense.
> Royal Rangers is 38 years old now. The way of thinking from way back
then
> has changed. It is the old vs. the new now. We can sit back and let God
be
> God or we can lock him up by tying his hands and saying that He just can't
> use the women.
> We pray for blessings all of the time but we gripe and groan when we
feel
> like we don't get enough (Gee I wonder why?)
> Just as the Scouts are beleaguered by the sexually misoriented issue,
the
> Rangers are beleaguered by the women issue and the whole thing is foolish.
> Until everyone starts being real just think of the example and the legacy
> that we leave behind for these kids? They will fight over these issues
> because we are fighting over these issues and it will never die out and
never
> be fixed because no one wants to work things out. Just think of all the
> people we turn off to God because of matters like this, Count my wife as
one.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Iron Mike
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