Why I support Promise Keepers and my husband.
By: Theresa Carle
I have been hearing about women all over America who do not support Promise Keepers. They say that these men are trying to take our rights away from us as women. They try to say that this organization is a cult and they are trying to assert the male dominance in America again. Well let me tell you all about Promise Keepers from a womans point of view.

First lets start with the 7 promises of a Promise Keeper: A Promise Keeper is

1) Committed to honoring Christ through worship, prayer, and obedience to God's word in the power of the Holy Spirit.
2) Committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help him keep his promises.
3) Committed to practicing spiritual, moral, ethical, and sexual purity.
4) Committed to building strong marriages and families through love, protection, and biblical values.
5) Committed to supporting the mission of his church by honoring and praying for his pastors and by actively giving his time and resources.
6) Committed to reaching beyond any racial and denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of biblical unity.
7) Committed to influencing his world, being obedient to the Great Commandment (Mark 12:30-31) and the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20).

Ladies, for years I've heard women say, my husband isn't man enough to lead my dog much less my family. Or my husband has no back bone, that's why I have to make the decisions in our family. Face it, for a long time we've all known that the men in our lives were not doing their jobs. We've complained and been disgusted, thrown up our hands and just about given up on the hopes that our men would ever lead our homes.

God created the first woman to be a help meet for man. He knew that man was lonely and needed someone to complete him (Genesis 2:20-23). For that reason He took a rib from man and created woman. Man was completed by woman. The two joined together create a strong unity. This is why as wives we should support our husbands and them up. We should make an effort to share in our husbands interests and really listen to his ideas and dreams. United we stand, but divided we fall is a familiar statement I'm sure. But think about it, how true it really is. When God gave a wife to man, He did so leaving the man to teach her, to talk to her, but also to lead her into God's will. God is the head of man, man is head of woman and family. The only time we are not to follow our husbands is when he tries to lead us in a way God would not want us to go. But if God is leading our husbands, then God expects us women to take our leadership from our husbands.

Man has an awesome responsibility. Did you know that God holds man accountable for what everyone in his household does? We really need to realize just what a job God has given man and encourage him in every way we can. Satan is attacking our families in a huge way right now. We need to all get back to the roles in our families God put us in. God never said, Woman lead your homes and lead your children. Women are supposed to help our husbands carry out his plans, but we are not to dispute his every course of action.

The Promise Keepers mens group has become a terrific encouragement for our husbands. The seven promises they are to live by are Christ honoring and will help our husbands to get back to the leaders God intended them to be. Ladies, stop fighting this group, the fire has started. If we put it out, it will be just as harmful to man kind as Eves causing Adam to eat of the fruit. The results, were then and would be now, very harmful to our families. We have cried out for years for our men to be real men and lead our homes. We wanted them to show true backbone and grit. Now that our men are taking a stand to change our families, our churches, our communities, our countries, and our world, by getting God back where He belongs. Men are starting to take their rightful places again. Women, step down and get back to being a lady of honor again. Take the place in our families God gave us and lets really support our men.

If we have to work outside of our homes and we come home and dinner has been cooked, we're not used to that. So we might wonder what he is up to. Or if he comes in and takes the trash out without being asked to do so, we may give him a strange look. Just remember, we've wanted our husbands to do these things for years, haven't we? Now lets let God have his will and way with our men. God is answering our prayers and we don't need to get in the way. Support him, encourage him, but most of all, enjoy him. Promise Keepers is teaching our men to serve us, like Jesus serves the church. Jesus did not come to earth to be served, He came to serve and die for our sins. Let your husbands serve you now, instead of you serving them.