The Gospel and Womanhood

In Ephesians 5: 23-33, apostle Paul makes explicit connections between the truth of the gospel and the institution of marriage. He shows how the roles of a husband and a wife are crucial in the display of the gospel in this world.  The truth of marriage and the biblical understanding of manhood and womanhood it entails, has been subject to much criticism from within and without the church. However what we believers need to keep in mind is that, this issue is not a mere cultural or gender role issue, it is a gospel issue as Paul reasons in the above passage.
  

This is exactly what Mary Kassian, author of the book Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild believes. She feels her book on biblical womanhood is important as “Manhood and womanhood are important, because men and women living according to Scripture display the Gospel. That is why there has been such an attack against gender, marriage, manhood and womanhood. If the evil one can pull those things apart, then we lose a display of who God is. When we get it right, we put the Gospel on display.” [1]

   

Girls Gone Wise In A World Gone Wild is study of contrasting the two kinds of women the book of Proverbs speaks of  - the wise Proverbs 31 woman  and the wild Proverbs 7 woman. Kassian aims to show what wise and biblical womanhood looks like in light of wildness, which characterizes much of our culture.  This book seems to be an essential one for pastors, spiritual mothers and moms in raising a younger generation of godly women who are passionate to not follow the wild and feminist culture of our day but seeks to display God’s glory in His gospel, by being radically biblical in their womanhood.

Courtney Reissig, who has written for The Council For Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, did a short interview with Mary Kassian on her latest book. It can be read at The Gospel Coalition Reviews website.

Girls Gone Wise: An Interview with Mary Kassian

Footnotes

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[1] Girls Gone Wise: An Interview with Mary Kassian, TGC Reviews