Every act in a Godly marriage should be done in service to God and the marriage to glorify God and love the spouse and children. In light of that, we have no personal goals. But every act in a Godly marriage happens by the initiative of one or more of the members of the marriage and family. In that sense, these acts and the goals behind them are ‘personal’. The wife personally decides to bake cookies for her family.
But these goals must not be ‘personal’ in their focus. All goals in the family, as in all goals in the church, must be ‘corporate’. The individual thinks, the individual decides, and the individual acts… but the ‘goal’ of those actions, decisions, and thoughts should be corporate.
The father has the responsibility both to make decisions and to delegate them. These decisions should be made for the good of all involved, no matter who makes them. I don’t think the word ‘compromise’ accurately reflects that.
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Von
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