{"id":36055,"date":"2012-12-06T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=36055"},"modified":"2021-06-22T21:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T02:13:32","slug":"does-god-expect-women-to-stay-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-god-expect-women-to-stay-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God expect women to stay at home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hi Jeff,<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to ask you a question about Christian women working. Do you believe the scriptures expect a woman to stay at home? I read Proverbs 31 and II Timothy 5 and they seem almost contradictory in the sense the woman works and sells and profits for her family and in the New Testament it says for them to be homemakers. I would appreciate your perspective on the matter.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>God gave the duty of managing the home to the woman. It doesn&#8217;t restrict her from working at a job. We too often see these as mutually exclusive conditions. But at the same time, a woman should not get so wrapped up in earning money that she is unable to do her tasks. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-studies\/preparation-for-a-lifetime\/housekeeper\/\">Housekeeper<\/a>. The same goes for men as well. Their primary duty is seeing that the family has sufficient income, but that isn&#8217;t all that God expects of them.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hi Jeff, I wanted to ask you a question about Christian women working. Do you believe the scriptures expect a woman to stay at home? 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