I'm just interested in some feedback from you ladies on this topic:
Where in the Bible does it say that fathers are supposed to guard their child's heart?
I'm not saying that they are or are not...just wondering if anyone can point me to a Scripture that says this.
My husband and I were having a conversation on this topic the other day, and I know that this is a popular sentiment among those who favor courtship over dating as far as relationships go. But, as with the phrase, "the husband is the priest in the home," I cannot seem to find any Scriptural evidence to support it.
Not that either of us is trying to get dads off the hook as far as being involved in their kids' lives - not by a long shot!! I was just raised being taught the verse from Proverbs: "Above all else guard YOUR heart..." That seems to place the responsibility on the individual, not on his or her parents.
Maybe it's just semantics and it doesn't matter. Maybe I'm being too much of a feminist and reacting to a weekend of being surrounded by homeschoolers (no offense to any of you who educate your kids at home - it's a valid and wonderful choice .).
At any rate, as SNL's Linda Richmond (as portayed by Mike Myers) used to say, "I'll give you a topic...talk amongst yourselves."
I agree with you. A lot of these sentiments sound good or spiritual but they are just that - sentiments and not necessarily rooted in the Word of God. That's why I love J. Lee Grady's book so much - the 10 Lies the Church Tells Women - because it exposes some of these "myths" that have somehow been turned into "scripturally based facts" accepted widely by the church.
No one has ever shown me any proof for what you say either.
I do believe we have responsibility in general as parents to protect, nurture, raise, nuture our children while they are in our home/minors. But to say that a father is to guard his daughter's heart and "control her" for lack of a better phrase, when she is an adult...I think that's a little over the line...I dunno.
And it's real easy to get to feeling bad our choices (how we school is only one of many out there). I do it too. Women just seem to have a TON of things we can feel guilty about doing/not doing. It pleases the enemy when we fall for it too.
I want to read that book. I find Grady always right on and matter of fact when I read his stuff. I am gonna find that book and add it to my "must read this summer" stack.
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