“I feel like I’m fighting the world.”
I said these words to my husband just the other day. We were discussing women and roles and motherhood. The messages are subtle, but they’re there infiltrating every facet of our culture. It is a fight against true womanhood – God’s divine design for womanhood.
The saddest part of it all is that no longer has the enemy just enlisted men to fight the battle for him. Since the beginning of the women’s movement, he uses our own, women, to fight for him. We fight against ourselves and each other by believing the enemy’s lies. In return we gain the exact opposite of the end result we’re trying to reach. We end up feeling even more oppressed and less free.
The True Woman Movement was started out of this fight that women find themselves in and the question “What is true womanhood?” By transforming our minds, we can combat this attack on God’s design for us and begin to reshape our future generations.
Mary A. Kassian and Nancy Leigh DeMoss wrote the book True Woman 101, Divine Design: An 8-Week Study on Biblical Womanhood to help Christian women do just this.
True Woman 101 gives women Biblical teaching and practical resources to begin living out our lives as women according to God’s divine design for us. Each of the eight weeks is divided into five lessons, and each lesson takes about 20 minutes a day to complete. At the end of each week, there is a list of questions for further discussion in a small group of women. There are also additional materials available online including helps for group leaders and companion videos.
What do I like most about this study? This very sentence:
“In this study, we have tried to focus on timeless biblical principles rather than the specific application of those principles.”
God’s principles are timeless. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We are taught that His principles are out-of-date and out-of-touch, but nothing could be further from the truth. His principles are what give us the freedom we so desperately seek. This study is steeped deeply in the Word of God and helps us understand the relevancy of biblical womanhood today.
This study is also not just for a certain type of woman. It’s not for women of a given political affiliation, work environment, marital status, age, personality, or education level. This study is for all women because God’s divine design is for all women. And this study shows us how to have grace for our sisters in Christ who may differ from us.
I highly recommend this 8-week study for your next Bible study, and there is a giveaway to get you started!
One person will receive a copy of True Woman 101: Divine Design. Just enter below however works best for you. On Friday I will announce the winner. (Please only U.S. residents may enter.)
Before you leave, share with us. What is one message you hear in our culture that goes against God’s divine design for women?
**I was given one free copy of the book True Woman 101: Divine Design in exchange for an honest review. My review above is an honest review based on my personal reflections of this book. The opinions are my own.
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