UntoHim, I believe society has misused and misapplied the word misogyny. How many people bothered to look up the definition? It's as if misogyny became some sort of utility or catch phrase against a man or group of men. Here is the definition.
Misogyny - hatred of, aversion to, or prejudice against women
What brother hates his mom, hates his sister, hates his spouse, or hates his daughter? Rather if a brother hates women or has contempt of women, why would he want to be married in the first place?
Does the word being used fit the actual definition or should another word and it’s definition be more aptly suited to The Recovery Movement?
I propose another word instead, sexism. I’ve heard many a message where the speaking brother is sexist in his prejudice or attitude.
Sexism – 1. prejudice or discrimination based on sex
2. behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex
Those of you who have met with churches outside the LSM affiliation,. what is your experience? How are sisters revered when compared to LC/LSM practices?
Are sisters not part of the Body of Christ? In regard to sisters in general, I present these verses:
1 Corinthians 12: 12-27
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.