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Dancing With The One You Love: Living Out Submission in the Real World
Let’s get practical. How do real women live out God’s plan in 21st-century marriages? Too often submission is represented as repressive servanthood, rather than a voluntary desire to empower a husband’s leadership. And as with many things in our culture, this view of submission has found its way into our churches and marriages. In reality, women desperately want to experience the graceful waltz where both the husband and wife are in harmony—each 'dancing' their God-given role. But all too often there are no realistic, godly models from which to draw.
Author and speaker Cindy Easley surveyed ordinary women and asked, “How does this work for you?” Specifically, how do you live out submission in your particular situation? These are their stories, from caring for a chronically ill husband to living with a nonbeliever. Each example will help married or engaged women gain appreciation for God’s will for marriage and learn to dance with the one they love.
Author and speaker Cindy Easley surveyed ordinary women and asked, “How does this work for you?” Specifically, how do you live out submission in your particular situation? These are their stories, from caring for a chronically ill husband to living with a nonbeliever. Each example will help married or engaged women gain appreciation for God’s will for marriage and learn to dance with the one they love.
214 pages, Paperback
First published July 16, 2010
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April 30, 2015
The value of this book will depend on the season of a woman's life and the length of her marriage and the godliness of her husband. I don't mean that the book is bad. It's just not enough. Much of her advice comes from her personal experience in three decades of marriage. She also throws in a few basic guidelines that can be picked up from a great number of books on psychology or marriage.
Society has changed. Women's Liberation freed the women more so than the men. I sense that more and more husbands aren't stepping up to the leadership role, so it's harder for wives to take the role of follower. The book cover shows a photo of a man and woman ballroom dancing. Imagine that the music starts and he stands like a statue. Her proper response as a follower is to stand as still as he does. They wouldn't get a low score in a dance competition. They'd score a zero point zero. They might as well not be dance partners. That seems to be the choice of more and more wives. She feels she might as well not be married.
I understand that the leader's role entails greater risk. A good leader takes greater responsibility for the team's failure. Sorry guys, but risk goes with the territory, so step up. He needs to lead, otherwise she can't follow. If you help with that, you'll have to find it somewhere other than this book.
Society has changed. Women's Liberation freed the women more so than the men. I sense that more and more husbands aren't stepping up to the leadership role, so it's harder for wives to take the role of follower. The book cover shows a photo of a man and woman ballroom dancing. Imagine that the music starts and he stands like a statue. Her proper response as a follower is to stand as still as he does. They wouldn't get a low score in a dance competition. They'd score a zero point zero. They might as well not be dance partners. That seems to be the choice of more and more wives. She feels she might as well not be married.
I understand that the leader's role entails greater risk. A good leader takes greater responsibility for the team's failure. Sorry guys, but risk goes with the territory, so step up. He needs to lead, otherwise she can't follow. If you help with that, you'll have to find it somewhere other than this book.
May 16, 2012
I read the previous edition of this:
What's Submission Got to Do with It?: Find Out From a Woman Like You
A very accessible, Bible-based book, which works out what it looks like to submit in real life and in a variety of situations, e.g., when your husband has chronic illness, when you earn more, when he's deployed, etc.
I was blessed to borrow a copy from an older woman in our church. I loved being able to note which sentences she had underlined and which paragraphs she had marked.
This would be great as a group study. In fact, there is an appendix with questions for further study. For each chapter, two or three Scripture passages are given with two or three specific questions related to each passage.
What's Submission Got to Do with It?: Find Out From a Woman Like You
A very accessible, Bible-based book, which works out what it looks like to submit in real life and in a variety of situations, e.g., when your husband has chronic illness, when you earn more, when he's deployed, etc.
I was blessed to borrow a copy from an older woman in our church. I loved being able to note which sentences she had underlined and which paragraphs she had marked.
This would be great as a group study. In fact, there is an appendix with questions for further study. For each chapter, two or three Scripture passages are given with two or three specific questions related to each passage.
November 28, 2012
The most interesting part of this book was the interviews with women who had military spouses and with radio host Janet Parshall. There the author discussed how submission works out in unusual gender roles. Otherwise, it seemed a repetition of other books I had read on the subject.
March 26, 2011
Ouch, here is some truth for you!
January 13, 2013
Basic info, but I did find the 3-day rule, based on Esther in the Bible to be interesting.
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