Lin

Can you point out where anyone has been disrespectful of Piper? Or questioned his motives?

I am the only one who has referred to him and that is only to present what I have read from him or heard him speak from a stage.

“I was simply trying to steer the conversation from such accusations as it is not reflective of true comp teaching.”

This might be a good place to start. What IS true comp teaching. While they might not teach a husband to abuse his wife there are many well known celebrity comp teachers affiliated with CBMW that seem to give abusers a pass or they are not really sure what is abuse.

Since you are familiar with Piper, I will give you one example of his seemingly misunderstanding of abuse:

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/AskPastorJohn/ByTopic/49/4154_What_should_a_wifes_submission_to_her_husband_look_like_if_hes_an_abuser/

The problem is that so many think Piper knows what he is talking about here. But he does not understand that all abuse escalates. When you cowtow to a bully it gets worse. So, his advice here is quite dangerous:

“Now that’s one kind of situation. Just a word on the other kind. If it’s not requiring her to sin but simply hurting her, then I think she endures verbal abuse for a season, and she endures perhaps being smacked one night, and then she seeks help from the church.”

But her church will tell her to pray more and submit more.

I have a question for Piper and all who give this sort of inane advice. As a Christian brother in Christ, why not go and take the beatings and verbal abuse in her place. That would say volumes to the abuser and send a true Christian message.