Rachel Jankovic (@lizziejank), put out a 4-min video on encroaching feminism, obedience, submission, & loving our homes. She specifically named Aimee Byrd @BethMooreLPM as bringers of feminism and disobedience to scripture.
Beth Moore snarkily replied with a tweet and a photo.
@canonpress and Rachel Jankovic then issued a 2-minute video reply to Moore's photo. It was brilliant.
@BethMooreLPM&her feminist hordes will not win (unless they submit to the Bible's precepts for obedience and women's roles.)
As for Moore, you say potato I say potato. It's too little, too late. She has spent a lifetime in her career of writing and traveling. The Atlantic's lengthy story on her stated flatly that Moore is "obsessively focused on writing", traveled so much when her children were little that her children "ate a lot of takeout", and that her husband picked up home duties. They mention her "publishing career" and her "writing career", but not her 'mothering career'. Instead, the writers noted that Moore "balanced motherhood with demanding professional ambitions."
For a biblical women submissive to her designated role, her ambition should be wifehood/motherhood only, and nothing should compete with that. That was Janovic's point.
Allowing personal ambitions to encroach into Godly roles and even compete with them means one has formed her own god and succumbed to the Genesis 3:16b curse and Genesis 4's warning that sin is crouching at the door and desires to have you. A woman's ambition is to serve God, in the ways HE has outlined, not the ways we personally desire if those desires are against scripture (and scripture tells us those desires will be).
As for Moore, one look at her face and demeanor will show you instantly what a lifetime of rebellion against God will do to you. It's interesting that a woman like Moore with 938,700 followers, almost a million, knows and cares what a woman with 3500 followers says about her. As an older women, Moore is supposed to be-
reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. (Titus 2:3-5)
It's pretty sad that here the younger is teaching the older, and the older woman is not responding well. It is a serious, serious thing to rebel against God. One of the outcomes is that His word is reviled, as the verse says. Beth Moore has brought reproach upon Jesus every day of her life since she began teaching men and never stopped, and has only added other sins to her growing pile.
Ladies, I know that home life is sometimes hard. Scrubbing, cooking for hubby, picking up endless toys, changing diapers, wiping noses, isn't the most glamorous job in the world. We often feel marginalized, that we are missing out, and are lonely. But it is the most important job in the world. It is a high calling, one that doesn't show instant rewards, but offers long-term benefits for us all.
Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. (Psalm 144:12)
Fulfill your ministry, model the role with integrity, love the Lord, serve the home, and reap glorious rewards when Jesus looks you in the eye and says "Well done, good and faithful woman."
Further Reading
What does the Bible say about Christian Mothers?
God's High Calling for Women
