I think he is worth listening to. I think even challenging to the mom who is able to stay home. Are we using our homes as a place to raise up godly, Christ loving children? Are we using Homemaking as an opportunity to be a place of rest and peace to those hurting? Do we role up our sleeves and serve the body of Christ with the time we have not working outside the home?
I think it will also encourage any that have been made to feel that if you don't work outside the home you can't possibly be missional.
John Piper is calling for full-time ministry:
"So, I'm calling for ministry full-time when I say "don't work full-time if you have a family." Turn your family into ministry. Turn your family into a global dream for what this family might become, or what this man might be, or what we might be together as we are home.
Those are the kind of dreams I want to offer the younger women that are coming along so that they don't think, "If I don't get a career and make lots of money and be equal with men in pay and time and everything, I've somehow sold out to something small or something that doesn't require intellectual capabilities.
It is a great and glorious calling to be a mother and a homemaker and a wife and a neighborhood make-it-happen kind of person and a church minister. Who knows what God might be pleased to do."
May God transform our hearts, and minds, and homes and give us greater eternal vision for them.
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