Cheryl Schatz

Kay,
Yes, MacArthur believes that a woman must stay in the area that God cursed her in. Working out her salvation is working in the domain that God said she must be in. It is weird because he does see the contradictions regarding single women and women unable to have children. Somehow they must find their cursed area by working with other women’s children. I don’t remember if he addresses the guilt and shame they have for not having their own domain.

It is so sad the heavy burdens that these men place on women to have a cursed domain that they must stay in. Yet Jesus released Mary to be his disciple and He said that what she had chosen was better than serving in the kitchen. Apparently Jesus wasn’t aware of a cursed domain.

Mara,
When I think of these men and their man-centered ideas, I understand that without a divine intervention from God to soften their heart, they will never change. What we can do is to reach out to other women and help them heal by seeing themselves as servants of Christ without a sin-filled intermediator between them and Christ and without a set course that all women must follow regardless of the gifts that God has given them. It is, after all, a gift to be single.