CounselingChristians

Q: Needing advice on how to deal with “backlash” from family and friends about living a biblical marriage. My husband and I are far from perfect, but our basic biblical foundation is that he is the head of the household, and while I have a voice and my voice is heard, my husband gets the last say. My husband would prefer if I didn’t work, but I absolutely have the choice to. I also like to consult my husband before I make decisions or do things to be respectful and because I care about his guiding lead.  My family does not take to this very well. My younger sister and her bf have a very modern, anti-conservative, non-Christian relationship structure and don’t want kids or to be ruled by the “misogyny” of the Bible. She’s made comments that if I don’t have dinner ready by the time my husband gets home he’ll be mad. My father has the mindset that a woman who doesn’t work is worthless and he has told me a few times that my husband will leave me for a female coworker who is more of a h...

I need some advice. I've been running a church event for 2 years now. I felt a desire to find a way to attract people to the church and peak their interest. For the last 2 years I have planned, preped, set up, and put together the event, with little to no help outside of volunteers the day of.  Today, I approached the childrens minister, who offered to help this year, to set a meeting date to go over details for the event. I was then told to my face that it will most likely be canceled this year because she is too stressed with VBS to worry about this event. I am hurt because I have done everything for this event every time, and did not ask for help but accepted it when offered. And now the entire thing seems it's going to be canceled because the help no longer wants to help, even though I am more than happy to do this on my own. I want to speak to my pastor about this, as he is the one who authorized this event and told me to make it good. But part of me is worried he will agr...