The Respect Dare: 40 Days to a Deeper Connection with God and Your Husband Author: Nina Roesner | Language: English | ISBN:
B008GVYXSU | Format: EPUB
The Respect Dare: 40 Days to a Deeper Connection with God and Your Husband Description
“A long and happy marriage.” It sounds like the end of a fairy tale—an illusion that modern times have exposed.
And it is, if marriage depends on a constant stream of romantic emotion, or even on copious amounts of time or money. Thank the Lord, none of those are necessary. Two thousand years ago, Paul gave women the key to a successful marriage, and it can be summed up in two words: unconditional respect. It’s not popular. It doesn’t sound fair. It can be hard to imagine.
But it works.
Nina Roesner has led countless women through this practical and life-changing journey, and in The Respect Dare she offers you the hope that so many others have found. Day by day, true stories and thought-provoking questions will help you apply biblical wisdom to the most important relationship in your life.
Give it forty days. Experience the intimacy God intended and discover what he can do in your heart and in your marriage when you choose to show respect his way.
- File Size: 645 KB
- Print Length: 187 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1440132801
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (December 11, 2012)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008GVYXSU
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I gave this book a try because I think that mutual respect is very important in marriage. Mutual. Mutual respect. So I thought that perhaps the book would give some tips on how to remember to live out that kind of thing on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the kind of relationship this book seems to be talking about is not one built on mutual respect, but on long suffering tolerance and low expectations (of the wife towards the husband--this isn't extrapolation, Roesner instructs the reader to lower her expectations) and complete obliviousness (of the husband towards his wife...and just about everything else.)
It manages to insult both men and women in many of the examples. Men are portrayed like a sitcom dad or bumbling detergent commercial dad, witless and goofy, hopelessly clueless and aw shucks, what can you do? You can't expect anything from them because that would be "unbiblical"-- and here I am offended as a Christian, because nothing in the Bible declares men to be uniformly insensitive fools, that is a construct of our present day. Women are portrayed as nagging, backstabbing shrews or, on the "doing it right" side, long-suffering martyrs who silently persevere even when it would be more sensible to speak up.
The first sign of trouble was when the author started relentlessly flogging her workshops, website, and add-on workbooks in the introduction. I hoped that the marketing efforts would be contained solely in that section, but alas, it never really lets up and there are endless reminders to sign up for a session, buy another book, or "tell all your friends!" about the author and her products.
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