Comments on Practical Theology for Women: Women Saved Through Childbearing?!

This is so practical and so profound! Thank-you!

2011-11-29T05:29:12.990-08:00

This is so practical and so profound! Thank-you!

Thank you for tackling this tough passage. As one...

2011-11-26T06:21:08.492-08:00

Thank you for tackling this tough passage. As one of the few women in my theology cohort, I have to press into passages like this to understand God and motivate my fellow classmates to innovate their theology with regard to more than 50% of their future congregations. It's so important for women to wade through hard passages for themselves and not rely on man's interpretation.

such a good word - thank you .. so needed. This ...

2011-11-25T12:09:15.297-08:00

such a good word - thank you .. so needed. This is the best explanation of this "saved in Childbearing" verse I have ever heard!

thanks, wendy. not sure how many hits you'll ...

2011-11-23T06:06:49.589-08:00

thanks, wendy. not sure how many hits you'll get but it was what i needed today anyway!

"I had NO IDEA I was so alive to myself in th...

2011-11-21T15:49:16.852-08:00

"I had NO IDEA I was so alive to myself in the first place." Oh my, yes! I never knew how selfish my heart was until I had children. I can see now how God uses my children to sanctify me every day.

Good Post, Wendy!

Love the explanation on progressive salvation. I h...

2011-11-21T12:40:39.196-08:00

Love the explanation on progressive salvation. I hadn't ever read it this way before. Thank you!

In my case Paul was wrong. I stopped attending chu...

2011-11-21T09:27:36.548-08:00

In my case Paul was wrong. I stopped attending church after I had children. I liked hanging out with my babies more.

Yes, thank you!! Some days I feel like all I'...

2011-11-21T08:45:49.718-08:00

Yes, thank you!!

Some days I feel like all I've done is keep my children's behinds' poop-free and their fingers out of light sockets.

Praise the Lord He is using all things for my good to conform me to His image.

Also, I can count on one hand the number of times I've heard this verse applied to single and infertile women and how they need not feel excluded from the grace of sanctification in 1 Tim 2:15. Thank you!

Isn't it interesting when God want you to read...

2011-11-20T14:16:48.221-08:00

Isn't it interesting when God want you to read something so fitting for you at the moment. I am struggling to trust God for an adult child and their decisions right now as I type my comment. God has been speaking to me all night and today about how He is working and will continue to work in this childs life and heart. My part? Pray, pray, pray and let God be God. Yes..... parenting is NEVER finished. So true....God will continue to use our children to shape us into the people (parents) God wants. His work in progress. We will never arrive until Glory. But.....we can rejoice in each answered pray and victory as we see God move and answer prayers. Thank you for your insight and taking the time to share it. Blessings to you in process.....

Amen. We all together are in childbirth pains.. in...

2011-11-20T07:59:53.528-08:00

Amen. We all together are in childbirth pains.. in labor, for our children, for us all, until Christ is formed in us Gal 4:19

Thank you! I give thanks (to you and to the Lord) ...

2011-11-19T21:31:01.356-08:00

Thank you! I give thanks (to you and to the Lord) for your ability to articulate these difficult things so clearly and so well.

Another passage that is becoming clearer to me after becoming a mom is the curses in Genesis after the fall. God, in his perfect love and kindness, ordained that Eve would have pain in childbearing, and struggle in marriage. I am beginning to understand that, like death, even God's curses were expressions of his mercy. God ordained these pains to draw Eve to himself, that she would depend on him and not rely on her understanding.

May we, the daughters of Eve, learn likewise.

This is fabulous, Wendy. I so appreciate your putt...

2011-11-19T13:38:25.063-08:00

This is fabulous, Wendy. I so appreciate your putting into words that getting saved is not something I did one time, but something God has done and continues to do.

Thank you for this. You have articulated so well m...

2011-11-19T10:44:09.681-08:00

Thank you for this. You have articulated so well my own journey in understanding the wide scope of "salvation". I am ahead of you age-wise with four grown children (ages 22-30) but still finding just how much I have yet to learn along the lines of trusting God and mortifying my flesh. It truly is a marathon, but how wonderful to realize He brings us through "to the praise of His glorious grace."