Baptist defends soundness of position

Dr. Jeff Ginn, director of the Northeast Campus of the Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Schenectady, said the statement on family was added to the Baptist Faith and Message so that it would reflect the importance of family life.

"There was no article that dealt with the family," he told The Evangelist. "This was to take a stand for family life."

PC-reaction

"It's not surprising," Dr. Ginn said. "We live in a day of political correctness. We live in a time of the sound-bite media approach."

He explained that anything that goes against the politically correct views of the culture is viewed as taboo. "Someone who doesn't have a biblical world view would have trouble with this statement," he said.

Supports addition

While the media have focused on wives submitting to their husbands, Dr. Ginn pointed out that husbands are called to an awesome task.

"A husband is called to love his wife as Christ loved the Church," he said, adding that it is difficult for any man to do anything in the same way Christ would. He said the passage in Ephesians calls him to give himself to his wife and put her needs above his own.

"Women are not subjugated," he said. "They are not downtrodden. There is an astoundingly high standard to which men are called." (MM)

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