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Originally Posted by TLFisher
My concept of a good husband is summed up in Ephesians 5:25-29
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church… “
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A good brother in context of the Local Church Movement is one who places the ministry above all things. That means the ministry first, marriage second, and family third. Striving to be God-man is more important than a good husband or a good father. A good brother in LCM context is looking towards the New Jerusalem more than living in the present. This is achieved through morning revival, pray-reading, prophesying, etc. To be a good brother is not compatible with being a good husband. A good brother puts the ministry before his wife and attends evening meetings during the work week while his wife stays at home.
I have wondered how many brothers struggled going to Thursday night Brothers meetings while their wife is at home?
Good fathers come out of establishing a relationship with their children. Making time for their children for when the children need their fathers. Weeknight meetings only subtract a father's time for his children. It's one or the other and cannot be both. Once the weeknight meetings are over it's usually bedtime for the children.
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Any men who has made a decision to get married, and puts church or meetings or any religious activities before his marriage or family, is a fraud and worst that an unbeliever.
The main reason why there are so many families that are broken, is because men aren’t there to take care of the wife and children, while claiming to be taking care of “God’s business”. If someone wants to be all for God, please do, but don’t get married and bring lives into this world if you aren’t planning to be there for them! I have lived through this kind of lifestyle, and seen my mother suffering, and children have no father in the house to be there for them, because Gods work was always a priority! It’s always other people, other families, other children, as if that’s Gods design.
God, marriage, family and children should be the order for a good husband. All the rest is a bonus, including church activities, and that same approach should be applied for a “good wife”. If the marriage is a picture of Christ and the church, then wouldn’t the practical application of the book of Song of Songs be just as valuable in a husband and wife daily living, as the local church claims it should be in your spiritual lives?
IMHO, local church people disconnect themselves from the reality of life, by being overly zealous for impractical exercises, while disparaging and mocking those who put the God given, powerful, truly overcoming daily expressions of Christ into actions. Remember it says: “ husbands love your wife…”, and doesn’t say “..husbands allow the Christ in you to love your wife, because you can’t otherwise”, - which is the local church version of marriage in the nutshell! That’s why most marriages in LC are just an empty veneer, a cohabitation arrangements with “benefits”, for the “Lord” as they like to say. I have seen this and been around it for way too long, and it’s sad to see how many people/children suffer on daily basis.