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Old 07-03-2017, 10:26 PM   #47
TLFisher
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"“China is famously Confucian.” Jackson Wu explains,79 “Confucianism...is socially hierarchical...All social interactions are regulated by the principle of the subordinate deferring to the superior. Thus, authority is central to ethics, values, and identity.” Hence, Watchman Nee’s authority-submission dogma resonates with Chinese Confucian values."

Have no opinions. Just submit. I doubt if brothers approach marriage as they do authority-submission doctrine. There's not going to be a healthy happy marriage life. Rather one of resentment and withholding feelings on account of the wives.
Contrary to authority-submission teaching, advice I've heard older brothers give to newlywed couples, is marriage is practically one of mutual submission. The husband will be wrought with difficulty if he expects absolute submission from his bride. Of course if a bride Is loved as husbands are charged to love their wives in Ephesians 5, she will set her will to submit to her husband. Love produces willful submission.
How come this hasn't worked in the local churches? It's because there's an absence of love and there's an absence of mutual submission.
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