Cheryl Schatz

Waneta Dawn,
Welcome to my blog! You have brought up some very good points.

What wife has hard time submitting to a husband who is laying down his life for her–sacrificing himself for her best interests?

This is exactly right. The real “cure” for an unsubmissive wife is to encourage the sacrificial love of her husband. What woman can resist a man who gives up himself for her?

I too believe that Piper calling verbal abuse as verbal “unkindness” is renaming a sin to make it less of a sin. And the fact that he encourages women to submit to sin (being smacked for a day) makes it clear (to me at least) that some sin is to be condoned and submitted to while other sin is to be rejected (while the wife is sweetly asking to be “led”). I think that John Piper is out of touch with reality.

My son met him in person within this last year and he said that there was a line up of people who were fawning over Piper telling him how great he was and how they so admired him. I think that Piper has so many people who surround him that think he is godlike and has the answers to everything that he now believes it himself. But his “wonderful” new answer to how a woman can submit through abuse is not good or godly in my opinion. I believe it falls in line with devaluing a woman and her ability to be mature without begging an abusive man to lead her.