today is the day of salvation)<\/em> and because they are so focused they are often misunderstood.\u00a0 Wives may think he is coming on to them, and their husbands think it anyway!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A married man will be more trusted and hence more effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBecause evangelists are so one sided they can also be blind sided. I can picture this conversation. Ed returns home and reports that he hasn\u2019t been able to get Ralph Jones saved. His wife calmly says, \u201cHave you seen Mrs. Jones? She looks terrible, and tired. The children\u2019s shoe-glue is coming apart. Maybe instead of a gospel message they need some financial help? Maybe then he will listen you? \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ed says: Oh that is a great idea. I will give him $1,000. (Ed doesn\u2019t notice people\u2019s shoes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh no, says his wife, you don\u2019t want them dependent on you, only to see the kindness that the Cross has worked in your life. Maybe then you can win him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For good reason opposites attract.\u00a0 (Help-meet in Hebrew means \u201cfitting\u201d \u2013 people need to fit together.)\u00a0 Ed is all zeal for the gospel; his wife must be a calm balance to stabilize his home.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the wife needs to do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Your job, if you will take it, will be to offer comfort, assurance, grounding, and acceptance \u2013 all the things he will not experience at the hands of a fallen world. For your part you will have love, because evangelists must love God first and then love souls. You\u2019ll never lack for friends or company because evangelists attract people as they should. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evangelists will accept pastorates so they can be closer and more available to their own children. This is often a mistake. They make rotten pastors, because they will see the smallest flaw in the congregation and preach salvation week after week, when what the sinners actually need is pastoral correction or teaching on holiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will never be bored.\u00a0 Evangelists have so much faith it drives fear out.\u00a0 They scare people; Ed might even scare you.\u00a0 Evangelists are the big wheels in the body of Christ and they need a strong axle, which a proper wife provides.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You bring polish, education, style and an innate pastoral skills, working with people as individuals with needs and concerns, just as you showed me how to work with Chusita, my rebellious 76-year old English student.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t you remember how you dumped all that ESL material on me?\u00a0 seeing that my residents here need ESL training as my handle for reaching old people for the Lord?\u00a0 And that is what I am doing.\u00a0 You may never have recognized this as a ministry but it is one of your gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course you\u2019ll want counseling if things go that far. It\u2019s especially true for seniors as the baggage they bring into relationships, both good bags and bad ones, alters the playing field. So please don\u2019t think of it as a nasty chore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God is good.\u00a0 He made marriage the highest state for Man because it requires the most work and reaps the best results – another generation of believers ready to serve their own Era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blessings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cornelia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psalm 68:6 \u00a0<\/sup>God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You will never be bored.\u00a0 Evangelists have so much faith it drives fear out.\u00a0 They scare people. Evangelists are the big wheels in the body of Christ and they need a strong axle, which a proper wife provides.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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