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Christian woman take dominion! Play your position! is a call we may hear a coach yell at a soccer or football game. The meaning is: Do what you have been assigned to do, and do it well! Many Christian women have been told over the years that they must quietly stay under their parasols while their men go out and conquer the world. Is this what the Bible really teaches? Author and pastor, Mark Chanski, insists that the Bible tells us a different story. He insists that the Bible teaches a woman to take dominion of her God-assigned role as wife, mother and church helper. This is not in a feminist way, but in a God-glorifying way that speaks volumes of who she is and why God created her. Women should not think of themselves as victims, says the author, but as victors who conquer the realm that their Lord and Master, Jesus Christ has given them.

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Publié par	Calvary Press
Date de parution	01 août 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780989979665
Langue	English

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W O M A N L Y D O M I N I O N

More Than a Gentle and Quiet Spirit

M A R K C H A N S K I
W O M A N L Y D O M I N I O N

More Than a Gentle and Quiet Spirit

M A R K C H A N S K I
Calvary Press Publishing CalvaryPress.com
2008, Mark Chanski. All Rights Reserved.

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Calvary Press Publishing www.calvarypress.com

ISBN -13: 978-1-879737-60-0 ISBN -10: 1-879737-60-0

1. Christianity-Women s Issues
2. Practical Christianity-Marriage-Motherhood

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Again, to my Dianne, My intelligent, beautiful, and servant-hearted Abigail who does good to me all the days of her life.
C ONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1-Womanly Dominion Fundamentally Explained
1. Dominion Commonality
2. Personal Intensity
3. Positional Loyalty

Chapter 2-Womanly Dominion Theologically Unpacked
1. Domination
2. Procreation
3. Position
4. Motivation

Chapter 3-Womanly Dominion Deceitfully Assaulted
1. You re a Genetic Victim
2. You re a Circumstantial Victim
3. You re a Marital Victim
4. You re a Maternal Victim

Chapter 4-Womanly Dominion in the Old Testament
1. Sarah
2. Zelophehad s Daughters
3. Deborah
4. Ruth
5. Abigail
6. The Excellent Wife of Proverbs

Chapter 5-Womanly Dominion in the New Testament
1. Mary, the Lord s Biological Mother
2. Mary, the Sister of Martha
3. Phoebe
4. Priscilla

Chapter 6-Womanly Dominion in Scriptural Motherhood
1. Saved Through Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:15)
2. A Reputation for Good Works (1 Timothy 5:9-15)
3. Older Women Teaching Younger (Titus 2:3-5)
4. A Stupid Ostrich (Job 39:13-17)

Chapter 7-Womanly Dominion and Motherly Greatness
1. Her Elite Mission
2. Her Priority Focus
3. Some Historical Models
4. Her Christ-like Sacrifice

Chapter 8-Womanly Dominion in Child Rearing-Part 1
1. Resisting the Propaganda
2. Evangelizing Your Offspring
3. Defending Your Culturally-Threatened Brood
4. Running a Dynamic Household

Chapter 9-Womanly Dominion in Child Rearing-Part 2
5. Rearing Sons
6. Rearing Daughters
7. Dealing with Offspring Disappointment
8. Handling Personal Disillusionment

Chapter 10-Womanly Dominion in Marital Life
1. Keep Your Vow to Your Husband
2. Love Your Husband
3. Be Grateful for Him
4. Respect Him
5. Create an Orderly Home for Him
6. Stay Attractive for Him
7. Physically Satisfy Him

Chapter 11-Womanly Dominion in Facing Your Fears
1. Psalm 46 and the Fear of Circumstantial Disaster
2. Psalm 27 and the Fear of Relational Abandonment
3. Psalm 23 and the Fear of Physical Death

Chapter 12-Womanly Dominion in the Church
1. Women as Submissive Learners
2. Women as Influential Teachers
3. Women as Hospitality Extenders
4. Women as Foot Washers

Chapter 13-Womanly Dominion in the Public Square
1. A Woman President?
2. A Woman Warrior?
3. A Woman Athlete?
4. A Woman Worker?

Endnotes
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Lord has been so gracious to give me many wise counselors and helpers who have directly assisted me in the writing of this book. I can only mention a few:
Dr. Russell Moore whose encouraging words and helpfulness have been of great benefit; Dr. Joel Beeke whose reading, comments, and recommendations have added gravitas; Dianne Chanski whose mind and example have together provided my most frequently consulted human source; Dorothy Chanski Martin, my Priscilla-like mother, who always had time to talk with her third born; Marcie Filcik whose editorial work and servant s heart have been precious and priceless; Mary Jo Haab whose reviewing, even through a first trimester s queasiness, was very helpful; Randy Stinson whose continued interest was inspiring; Elaine Wallace whose Northern Ireland proofreading added polish; Craig Sietsema and Jon Vannette who encouraged me to write a sequel.
I NTRODUCTION

How did I get into this situation? I asked myself as I clung to the tower s exterior, about forty feet above the ground. I really thought I d have no problem scaling this sixty-foot wall at the Baptist Camp at Clear Lake, Iowa. But the ninety-three degree temperature and the corn-growing humidity were taking their toll on me. Sweat poured down my soaking wet face onto my drenched t-shirt. Slippery moist and burning fingers were crying, Uncle, as they strove to grip the slick handholds. My heart pounded for relief.
I thought it would be a great father and son adventure. Eleven-year-old Nathan and I would side-by-side accomplish our first wall-climb attempts. While strapping on our rope harnesses, it appeared a bit more formidable than the view from across the lake, but I wasn t worried. I told Nathan, Remember, no pain, no gain. We can do this!
But now, twenty minutes into the ascent, I wasn t so sure about my own performance. Come on, Mark, I thought. You re a long-distance runner. You lift some weights. You re in good shape. What s the matter? Besides that, look at Elizabeth. She s nearing the top. Are you gonna let her out-climb you?
Elizabeth is Pastor Mike s wife. She s a petite woman with a very gentle and quiet spirit . In appearance, she s the epitome of soft femininity. But with Elizabeth, there s more than meets the eye. Her father was a linebacker for the University of Northern Iowa, and had obviously passed on to his daughter a hefty portion of his drive and tenacity. My nephew had told me that she had been his high school English teacher, and that though she herself looked like a high school freshman, she subdued and ruled her classes like a Marine drill sergeant. Nobody dared to mess with Mrs. A.
This makes me think of another Elizabeth in American history. Her name was Elizabeth Cummins Jackson, the great grandmother of Lieutenant General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Jackson was a great hero in both the Mexican-American and the U.S. Civil Wars. In the Battle of Bull Run, all seemed hopeless for the Confederate troops, but Jackson rallied his brigade of Virginians. His biographer, R. L. Dabney, wrote, His eye blazed with that fire which no other eye could meet; his countenance was clothed with a serene and assured smile. 1
When his colleague Confederate General Bee reported in despairing bitterness that his own ranks had been shattered by the Federal onslaught, Jackson rose to the occasion:
Then, said Jackson, calm and curt, we will give them the bayonet. Bee seemed to catch the inspiration of his determined will, and, galloping back to the broken fragments of his over-tasked command, exclaimed to them, There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Follow me. From that time Jackson s was known as the Stone-wall Brigade, a name henceforward immortal, and belonging to all the ages. 2
Stonewall Jackson s legendary courage and determination didn t simply fall from heaven . They can profoundly be traced back to the plucky spirit of his great grandmother , Elizabeth Cummins, whose bravery and grit were passed on by example and instruction. Dabney describes Elizabeth as a woman of strong stature with understanding and energies corresponding to the vigor of her bodily frame. 3
When the young couple (Great Grandfather John and Elizabeth) emigrated to Northwest (Virginia), the Indians were still contesting the occupancy of its teeming valleys with the white men. The colonists were compelled to provide for their security by building stockade-forts, into which they retreated with their families and cattle at every alarm of a savage incursion. It is the tradition that, in more than one of these sieges, Elizabeth Cummins proved herself, though a woman , to have the stomach and mettle of a man, and rendered valuable service by aiding and inspiriting the resistance of the defenders. In her industry and enterprise was realized King Lemuel s description of the ways of the virtuous woman: She considers a field, and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard (Proverbs 31:16). Several patents (deeds) are still in existence, conveying to her, in her own name, lands which were afterwards the valuable possessions of her posterity. They have usually claimed that the characteristics of their race were largely inherited from her; that it was her sterling integrity, vigorous intellect, and directness of purpose which gave them their type Hers were stamina, both of the physical and moral constitution, fitting her to rear a race that were men indeed. 4
Oh, how desperately our generation needs a race that are men indeed. And how desperately we need such strong women to rear them!
Lest you dismiss this Elizabeth Jackson as out of step with the Bible s standard of femininity and womanhood ( a gentle and quiet spirit a weaker vessel -1 Peter 3:4, 7), remember the further words of Lemuel s mother regarding her inspired blueprint of a noble woman who fears the Lord:
She girds herself with strength and makes her arms strong Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she smiles at the future (Proverbs 31:17, 25, emphasis added).
The false stereotype of a Christian woman being a helpless and frail mouse, who passively shades herself under the parasol of her soft femininity, and adoringly waits for her husband to do all the heavy lifting, is shattered by the Scriptures.
Yes, the godly Christian woman wears beautiful ornaments that are precious in the sight of God (1 Peter 3:4). But her jewelry is not only the necklace of a gentle and quiet spirit, but also the bracelets of strength and dignity.
Charles Bridges comments on the strength of the Proverbs 31 ideal: Christian courage and resolution lift her above appalling difficulties. 5
Regarding her proverbial strength, Geor