Word: servanthood
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McCartney insists that a man's "leadership" at home actually translates into "servanthood" rather than domination. "You can talk around it, but the man has a responsibility before God," McCartney says. "He must stand before God and give an account. Did you take spiritual leadership in your home?... You know what a woman is told [in the Bible]? Respect your husband. O.K.? The way she would do that is that she would come alongside him and let him take the lead, and he in turn would lay down his life. He would serve her, affectionately and tenderly serve...
...Servanthood calls for a new understanding of the nature of the church: not the "repository of the saved" but what Editor Stephen Rose of the Chicago monthly Renewal calls "a community of people, no better than anybody else, but who are trying to be the light of the world." It is a church, Rose adds, that must seek, through service, "to become the center of life, rather than what it now seems to many: a peripheral institution...
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