Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

Likewise if she chooses to obey God’s commandment, it is between her and God. I will never, and don’t ‘take’ or demand authority from my wife.

This seems to confirm my earlier comment that it is your wife that gives you the authority. That you can’t demand she give you her authority. But rather that she can submit her “rights” to you but you have no “right” to demand that she give up her “rights” with the children?

You said:

To apply it differently, when we moved house last year to another state, we discussed the issue, prayed about it etc. However, when the crunch time came and we needed to decide to do it, my wife left it to me to make the decision.

Does this mean that she had no decision of her own so she let you make the decision? Or that she was not in favor of what you wanted but she submitted to your decision?