Following up from my post two weeks ago on the power of Christian women, here is an example from commenter Carlotta. Carlotta shared this story back in March of 2016:
What about women with unbelieving spouses? I was one. I read my Bible and prayed and lived my faith. Took 18 years and he is saved. I would even ask him questions. I showed him in the Bible that I had to ask him and asked him to please help me. He did. It wasn’t until I stopped listening to all women preachers, going to Bible studies and just followed Yahweh that he even took me serious. Masculine men are not interested in watching their wives follow other people. Yahweh knows what he is about. I lived my faith, I took my questions to him and put him in charge. He took it seriously and it became a match between him and the Holy one instead of him and me or him and my Teacher.
Some would no doubt differ with her understanding of 1 Corinthians 14:35 applying to a non believing husband (ESV):
If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
But none could deny the beauty and awesome power of her obedience to 1 Pet 3:1-6 (ESV):
3 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. 5 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
However, following the instructions of Scripture is terribly unsatisfying from the modern Christian perspective. Wives winning their husbands over via submission lacks feminist moxie. Moreover, it doesn’t fit the modern conservative Christian model either. In the conservative model the desired process is to declare oneself the only real man in the room and invite Christian wives to order their husbands to attend the latest iteration of Christian Man Up Academy, where the real men can teach the clueless bastards everything they need to know.
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