How Am I Different Than Female Preachers/Speakers?
When I began mentoring women in biblical womanhood when I was 45 years old (27 years ago), I would have a group of about 15 women in one of the women’s homes. I would read a few sentences of “Created to Be His Help Meet” to the women, and then we would discuss it. I would ask questions for them to ponder and answer their questions. It was a mentoring/discussion group. It was great!
After this, I began mentoring women one-on-one. I would also have small groups of women over for lunch, show them how to make bread, and answer any questions they had on raising children and marriage. When my health became too poor to keep doing this, I began writing on my first blog. I would respond to the comments on the blog; continuing to mentor and teach women as much as possible. I was happy to do this even if only a few dozen women read what I wrote. I never imagined that one day many women would learn from me.
Now, I write on Instagram, X, and Facebook. I still write some posts on this blog. I try to respond to as many comments as I can on my social media accounts. It begins to hurt my eyes if I am on my iPhone too much (a result of radiation on my brain which caused dry eyes). I also respond to the many emails I receive when I have a chance. I am still in a teaching, mentoring, and discussion type of relationship with women.
I don’t speak or preach on stage in a church or other venue. I am in my home. I am a keeper at home as God commands. I am not a preacher or speaker. Plus, I only teach what God has commanded me to teach in Titus 2:3-5 (everything concerning biblical womanhood and Scripture which supports it). I don’t teach other doctrines. Women should be learning those from their biblically qualified pastors and elders (men) at their churches.
Many women who are public speakers/preachers claim that in Titus 2:3 where God commands the “aged women” to be “teachers of good things,” that this means they are free to teach everything in the Bible except for biblical womanhood. I disagree. Women are in desperate need to be taught the ways of the Lord for them. The “good things” that older women are to teach younger women are clearly listed: sober, love their husbands and children, be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, and obedient to their own husbands.
Did you know that it was the Suffragettes who brought female public speaking into the political mainstream through their highly visible demonstrations and speeches advocating for voting rights? Women giving speeches publicly is not found anywhere in Scripture. Feminism is what ushered it in. One cannot be a public speaker and a keeper at home. I doubt any public female preacher or speaker teaches women to be keepers at home since they are not. It would make them hypocrites. We must live in obedience to the Lord; for He is good and His ways are perfect for us.
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:3-5
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