When we are seeking to live as Evangelical Patriarchs we will encounter resistance from the world and the underworld. Satan and the natural world itself does not grasp the need for gospel centered living where a man rules by the Gospel over those under his sphere of influence and responsibility. The idea is foreign to the natural mind and it is the enemy to the kingdom of darkness.
How can we effectively combat the error that seeks to oppose our ideology? There are many ways. But I propose to you one of the best ways is for our family testimony to be a central standard. An Evangelical Patriarch can let the moral character of his family be a testimony to the gospel at work in this type of lifestyle. A man who has a woman or several women and even children who are honorable, orderly, and respectable has by that presentation something to reveal God's glory. Dr. Billy Graham once said this: "The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives."
One of the best ways to alter the negative, erroneous, and ungodly opinions many have about patriarchy is to establish a home based upon Evangelical premises. When the gospel of grace empowers a man and he from that grace establishes and empowers a family where there is order, peace, harmony, love, and other gospel qualities within the family that is a testimony in and of itself that makes it hard for others to fault. When a man is changed by the gospel and then he leads a woman or women who are then changed by the gospel and then even subsequently with children that family and their character and order will speak volumes about the truth of their lifestyle. Even those who still refuse to admit the truth of it cannot but feel the weight of seeing the order of the gospel before their eyes and then wondering why is it that their home is still in chaos and confusion.
How can we effectively combat the error that seeks to oppose our ideology? There are many ways. But I propose to you one of the best ways is for our family testimony to be a central standard. An Evangelical Patriarch can let the moral character of his family be a testimony to the gospel at work in this type of lifestyle. A man who has a woman or several women and even children who are honorable, orderly, and respectable has by that presentation something to reveal God's glory. Dr. Billy Graham once said this: "The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives."
One of the best ways to alter the negative, erroneous, and ungodly opinions many have about patriarchy is to establish a home based upon Evangelical premises. When the gospel of grace empowers a man and he from that grace establishes and empowers a family where there is order, peace, harmony, love, and other gospel qualities within the family that is a testimony in and of itself that makes it hard for others to fault. When a man is changed by the gospel and then he leads a woman or women who are then changed by the gospel and then even subsequently with children that family and their character and order will speak volumes about the truth of their lifestyle. Even those who still refuse to admit the truth of it cannot but feel the weight of seeing the order of the gospel before their eyes and then wondering why is it that their home is still in chaos and confusion.