Biblical Christianity and More!

I think today marks the most stressful day of summer. I have no real reason why, I am not really doing anything. So here's the recap:

I went downtown (again) to Ryerson (again)...despite graduating, I end up going there often. I have been there six times or so SINCE I finished my last exam in late April. I was meeting up with Victor who will be a Campus for Christ staff worker in Toronto next year. I will partner with him in this ministry. I think God is prompting me to give more than I wanted to, that's okay. God has blessed me tons lately so it's only fair I spread the wealth.

While waiting for my meeting with Victor, I purchased a book. Books are good. Lunch with Victor was good, too.

After the meeting, I went back to Mississauga to purchase contact lenses for my grad trip to the Dominican. The nice lady gave me a trial pair for free, so I wouldn't have to purchase six months worth.

I came home, watched some TV with my brother. He was playing dota all day (again). About here is where it went downhill. While flipping channels, stopped on a misandric television show: you know you're typical wife is brilliant authoritarian beautiful woman and the man is some dumb fat slob who was lucky to have met her. ... I decided to watch tennis instead.

Parents called me out to go shopping. That was mistake number two. I forgot how uncomfortable it is shopping with them. They mean the world to me, but I was reminded why I stopped shopping with them... hahaha

On the way home, I was listening to 99.5 Life FM... and there was a sermon on Ephesians 5. The preacher was talking about the standards of which a husband is called.

Ephesians 5:25-27:

25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

This is an INCREDIBLY high calling. But, it is the STANDARD. The preacher brought up 1 Cor 13, the various aspects of the action verb "love". Pretty tough stuff. He also calls the husband to lead in servant leadership, submitting out of love. This is ideal, because it creates a loving environment that a woman wants in marriage (Last I checked, we should be doing all things for Christ, not for wife.) He also alluded to an event in which a distraught husband had come to him. The man was frantic, his wife was cheating on him. The preacher turned it back to the husband... (paraphrased) "Well, what did you do to remove the temptation of adultery?".

Excuse me? WHERE does it say that men are responsible for REMOVING the temptations that their wives face?

Sigh, I had a lot of problems with this sermon. There is a lot of double speak: treat the woman like a child...create an environment which protects her from all the bad stuff, and pushes her towards God. Yet, you are not to dominate her. You are to servant lead, submitting out of love. We need to all take ownership of our own spiritual lives. This message made it seem like the husband is responsible for the wife's salvation.

EDIT:

After calming down a bit, it is the maligning the Word of God that annoys me the most. The end on that topic.