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Since you jumped on this old post Rachel, and since Cheryl’s last post before yours speaks of “testing all things”, I will share a very refreshing excerpt from our pastor’s sermon this last Sunday. This is a paraphrase but not in the least exaggerated.

“I am not the most important person in this church and I’m certainly not the smartest. I have only been gifted and blessed with the opportunity to teach but you [the congregation] need to know, I can certainly be wrong. You need to be like the Boreans and test everything I, or any other “teacher” says, against scripture to determine if it indeed is true and correct. This is YOUR responsibility”

My wife says that this is the way she was brought up. Even though it was a fundamentalist church, her parents made certain their children went back to the bible to confirm anything any human said was “true”. As such, and this should be no surprise, her parents had, at least from my “out-law” objective observation, a reasonably egalitarian marriage. It can be done, but only if we don’t get mesmerized by the words of fallen men.