Mainstream religion has so distorted the intent of God’s heart by misinterpreting certain Scripture passages.

I would like to use this post to debate a wrong, long-held belief that men are intended to be the head of the household in Christian families. I maintain, very confidently, that God is the head of the household of families that submit to Him, and that husbands and wives should be partners in marriage.

In my mother’s generation, women often allowed men a pretend leadership. It was a way of getting otherwise irresponsible men to act responsibly. But please understand me, that whole scenario was manipulation and often had an undertone of plotting and scheming behind husbands’ backs. It allowed women to be lazy in their faith and to refuse submitting directly to God.

The Biblical text (Ephesians 5:23) that is often misinterpreted was written by the same writer as “slaves obey your masters” and was just 17 verses later (Ephesians 6:5). Clearly, the passages were written in a different cultural climate when human slavery was acceptable and when women were intentionally kept illiterate. Women were not allowed to learn to read and write, but were instead delegated to raising children, menial tasks, and household chores.

If we read the Bible in full context, we can see that God used women in mighty ways to save nations, change hearts, and birth revival. There were women prophets, judges, deliverers, apostles, and deacons. Women founded churches and evangelized. Women taught men about Jesus. So knowing all that, how can one take a single, highly misinterpreted Scripture, out of context to divide men and women in pursuit of God’s heart for the family and ministry?

A family should be a partnership of seeking God and knowing Him. God should have the only lordship in a Christian home. Yes, mothers and fathers should have authority over children while they teach them to know God and raise them to be good citizens. But at an appropriate age or maturity, children need to be responsible to God without a parent’s leading. Healthy marriages depend on both parties knowing God and following His lead.

Listen, if anyone would intentionally misrepresent Scripture against God’s heart, God knows about it. Those are the churches where the congregants and the pastors have no Holy Spirit anointing. If you sit in a church pew with false teaching, you are complicit and will be disciplined or punished accordingly. God is NOT required to make things easy for you.

I’m eager to debate this topic. Public commenting is left open for any sincere debate. However, I will not tolerate comments that devalue me because it ultimately dishonors those that I love by association.