Is being a stay-at-home dad a sin? (update)
October 13, 2008
“Sometimes it is.”
Read part one of Jared Wilson’s essay.
(Update 10/13) Part two is now up.
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I am a SAHD. I am a pastor. I prefer not being a SAHD and having rather my wife be here. However, this church cannot afford to pay for insurance. Our Cesarian Section would have cost 20,000 without insurance, only 2,000 with insurance.
Ephes. 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Does this mean I am REQUIRED to be out of the house for 40-50 hours a week. If I am out for 40 hours a week, then is it legitamite to say I am raising my son in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Or, is it obedient that I am raising my son in the discipline and instruction of the Lord 40 more hours a week than a dad who works away from home for 40 hours. I can better fullfill Deut 6 being at home, and that text does not say just for moms to fulfill Deut 6.
I know a friend who is not a SAHD, and his wife stays home, and they cannot afford insurance, and he has been in numerous repeated debt problems, always borrowing money from friends and family with credit problems. I don’t think one can ban SAHD just so one can be a debtor to others.
This congregation does not want me to be bivocational, and will consider it greedy if I ask more money for insurance purposes, when they’ll think, “let your wife go get a job like everyone else, instead of us carrying that load.”
If I preach on the Masonic Lodge or Arminianism, I might lose this ministry, and sure God can provide, and even if my wife quit her job to be a SAH mom; But I want to know WHO on this comment board will start sending me $500 a week as a offset to a loss paycheck as I step out on faith. If I step out on faith, and God provides, will people here just sit back and watch, or be a daily supporter of this faith that they have suggested for me.
Like i said I don’t prefer my wife working, but then again none at this church practice head-coverings which I see as Scriptural, yet one failure does not grant another. I don’t agree with congregationalism and committees, yet this church has both, and without elders. I don’t even like us supporting the SBC financially which is Arminian in base and ignored Masonic accountability, so what are we to do?
Much more could be said, but maybe these thoughts could better direct us from hasty judgments.
This is interesting. What is Masonic accountability? I am kinda in the SBC, and would like to know what Masonic accountability. It sounds like the Masons??? Also, I thought, by reading the doctine, SBC leaned more toward ultimate sovereignty, rather than Arminianism?
Anyway, if you could shed light on this, that would be great.
What I meant by Masonic Accountability, is that there is none; so if you want to join, be a worshipful master and call a man a worshipful master, that is fine by the SBC, don’t ask, don’t tell. If the convention turns a blind eye to men in the masonic lodge, one might as well let members join the Kingdom Hall too. The heart and root of Freemasonry is contrary to Jesus and Scripture, while each of the 33 levels increase in error, even the first 3 levels are evil. If kneeling at an altar and calling a man Worshipful Master 80x per ceremony is not something that Jesus would do. I have done intense study on them and have documentation if needed. I have put the material aside for now because a lawyer doesn’t harp on a won case despite naysayers.
My father is an SBC pastor for 40 years, I went to a SB funded college and an SBC seminary. I have been preaching in the SBC for 8 years. I have studied the past 3 confessions of faith and know full well the leaders are Arminian. I have not left the convention yet because ideally a church purifies the body, not have a disease purge the pure; but even Paul came out from among the Jews.
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