Waneta Dawn

I, too, am troubled by Piper’s chuckle and by his minimizing of bullying, which he calls “verbal unkindness.” With his minimization of domestic violence, would any wife in Piper’s “church” realize that being choked, pinned to the wall, kicked, scratched, restrained against her will, punched, threatened, and raped are also domestic abuse?

He seems to assume that husbands naturally love and lay down their lives for their wives, and that wives have a hard time submitting. What wife has hard time submitting to a husband who is laying down his life for her–sacrificing himself for her best interests?

What kind of men are in his “church?” They are given full rein to bully their wives, lie to them, slander them to their faces, steal their reputations by telling them repeatedly and emphatically that they are worthless–in direct opposition to the Bible saying those who are in Him are the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and Justified by faith through our Lord Jesus Christ, and worth more than rubies.

By allowing husbands to sin against their wives like this, isn’t Piper allowing them to proclaim they know better than God? Isn’t Piper “straining at gnats” to make the fault the wife’s lack of submission unless the husband is CLEARLY asking her to sin? And isn’t Piper “swallowing a camel” to justify the authority of husbands over their wives? Isn’t the “unkindness” clearly sin?

Why are Piper, Bruce Ware, and others of their group refusing to hold husbands accountable for sin? Oh yes, Piper will hold husbands accountable IF they smack their wives.

So, husbands, don’t smack your wives. You can do everything else to them, but as long as you don’t smack them, you have Piper’s blessing. After all, according to Piper, those other things are not CLEARLY sin, are they??

Reminds me of the song “Oh you can’t get to heaven on a pair of skates, cause you’ll roll right past those pearly gates.” It’s time to take your skates off, Piper!