Reply To: Raising Awareness About Domestic Violence

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@Simon
In my experience, there are a lot of teaching within the Christian church that are based on assumptions. They assume that their audience is this white, middle class, well off family where the father works and the woman stays home with the children. All of the teaching is geared towards that audience. They also assume that you are BOTH “believers.” So it is assumed that the man and woman are already involved in a church, have deep roots within their community and that the church itself is functioning in an ethical manner. They assume that the man will be willing to “submit” to the church for council and that both people will work hard on repairing their marriage. The fact is that people like that are few and far between. So what the church advocates and reality are really two different things. The church lives in a world of fantasy that just simply doesn’t exist.