Hello everyone. I have been visiting this site on and off for about three years. I found it after my marriage went very bad and I started researching Godly marriage and fatherhood in an attempt to win back my wife. I found patriarchy and christian polygamy at about the same time and they really resonated with me. The tragedy is that I discovered many of the precepts and proof texts of the movements on my own, but had twisted them to get what I wanted and they had backfired on me. I lost everything, literally, and have started back over.
To be honest marriage of any kind isn't a big issue to me right now because of my financial circumstances. I couldn't support any kind of wife, let alone two, so it would be irresponsible for me to try. Not that I haven't been irresponsible in the past but its never too late to turn over a new leaf. What really interests me and what I really feel God pulling me towards is headship. I don't have to tell the people on this board that men have abdicated their responibilities and we can all see the effects of that in the greater culture. All of us, whether single, plurally covenanted or monogamous are called to unapologetically be leaders. Finding and fulfilling that God mandated role is the larger umbrella issue for me. Marriage, monogamous or plural, can't work well without it.
Of course no one in the church at large is teaching this, although I bet most of the men on the board have had multiple discussions with men who will quietly admit to believing it, as long as their wives don't find out. So here I am to engage in the marketplace of ideas and interact with the only people who believe as I do. I look forward to talking to you all and meeting some of you if there is a retreat within easy striking distance of here.
I would also appreciate being remembered in prayer. God is crushing my very rebellious spirit and I am of course kicking and screaming the whole way.
To be honest marriage of any kind isn't a big issue to me right now because of my financial circumstances. I couldn't support any kind of wife, let alone two, so it would be irresponsible for me to try. Not that I haven't been irresponsible in the past but its never too late to turn over a new leaf. What really interests me and what I really feel God pulling me towards is headship. I don't have to tell the people on this board that men have abdicated their responibilities and we can all see the effects of that in the greater culture. All of us, whether single, plurally covenanted or monogamous are called to unapologetically be leaders. Finding and fulfilling that God mandated role is the larger umbrella issue for me. Marriage, monogamous or plural, can't work well without it.
Of course no one in the church at large is teaching this, although I bet most of the men on the board have had multiple discussions with men who will quietly admit to believing it, as long as their wives don't find out. So here I am to engage in the marketplace of ideas and interact with the only people who believe as I do. I look forward to talking to you all and meeting some of you if there is a retreat within easy striking distance of here.
I would also appreciate being remembered in prayer. God is crushing my very rebellious spirit and I am of course kicking and screaming the whole way.
Despite the pic, I be the dude you met last week. Won't admit to having preached though. :lol: 
