Meg Logan’s Blog

Sorry for all that mess folks. The comments were closed temporarily due to filthy spam. My wonderful hero of a husband seems to have taken care of it, so the comments are now open again! Thanks husband!!

Mrs. Meg Logan

OK my hand has been forced to write. *sorta*

This is mostly a re-post from some comments I made at MiNTheGap’s blog.

I left women’s bible study groups because I found that I was learning way too much outside of my husband’s teaching. Which usurps his role and makes me the spiritual leader in a way. Now, if I am going to learn something in depth like that it is going to be from my husband or it isn’t going to happen at all. Please, don’t think for a second that this means I have forsaken reading the Word or worshiping Christ. That isn’t it at all.

Women are to remain silent in the church. If they have questions they are to ask their husbands at home. We all agree that the Bible says that right?!

If I am going to Woman’s Bible Study, where my husband cannot go, learning things that he is unaware I am learning, how is this under his authority? Of course he granted permission for me to go, so I guess in that way it was under his authority, but I just started feeling like I was leaning way out from under his teaching. How can *he* be teaching me about that stuff when I am learning it from someone else? When we attend church together we are learning from the same man, but then he is equipped for me to ask him questions later. We are on the same page, I am not leaping out in front of him.

I really think this is just for a season. But *I* was getting heady about all that I *knew* and it was becoming a pride issue for me, and getting in the way of me really submitting to my husband’s teaching, because I got so I thought I knew more than him. So I started thinking he couldn’t really teach me anything anyway. So I decided to stop filling my mind with knowledge that he is not privy to, and instead to go to him for knowledge.

Do I think it is a sin for a woman to study under another woman? NO. Look at Titus 2. But when we go there, let’s remember what it is that the older women are to teach the younger ones. In the list of things there I do not see DOCTRINE or NUANCES of the faith. I do not see deep Biblical study listed. I see practical things that are meant to help the woman be a better help meet to her husband.

Now of course, I need to “study to show myself faithful” ( I think that is how it goes). But I have the basics down. The deeper things need to wait until my husband leads me there. Now it would be more prudent of me to focus on implementing the knowledge I already have, such as practicing the Fruit of the Spirit. Being a diligent worker at home, respecting my husband, being meek, being a chaste and discreet woman. These are all things I learned are required of me as a Christian woman. I need to be a DOER not a HEARER only. I can faithfully practice these things until I begin to respect my husband and his teaching, and bring myself under his authority in that area again.

So to sum up,
Of my own volition, and due to prayer and contemplating what was causing my own sinful attitude towards my own husband, I choose not to attend a Woman’s Bible Study (or other study) that is aimed at learning deeper things of doctrine or God, without my husband’s presence. Were I to find one that was exclusively about following the things in Titus 2 I would be ok with that. I would never have a problem if my husband attended with me, as he would be in full knowledge of what I learned and could correct my understanding easily. I could not be as puffed up if he were there to learn side by side. I would not be thinking I knew better than he, for obviously he would have learned it too.

I just thought I would share this since MiNTheGap thought it was pretty interesting, and I haven’t posted in a long while.

Mrs. Meg Logan

My baby is one year old today! I can hardly believe it. She walks, and she potties, and she tries really really hard to talk. She still takes a pacifier. *sigh* She’s so little!! Do we HAVE to take it away??

She is also willful, and in need of some serious training sessions. Already?! (yikes) they just grow up so fast!

Boy she’s cute though. Twenty pounds of cuteness. When she smiles it melts my heart. I have this feeling that when the new baby comes along, my little baby isn’t going to look so little anymore! I’m trying to suck up all her little tiny cuteness for as long as possible.

Well, thanks for stopping by to say happy birthday to my little one.

Mrs. Meg Logan