Peoples:
Discipling & Mentoring Women

A strong society is hinged on healthy homes. Edward Gibbons, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, lists the “undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home” as being one of the five reasons that great civilizations wither and die. This is because the home is the basis for human society and the scripture cites women to have the domestic dominion of the home.

Perhaps this is why Paul was emphatic about the importance of women modeling and teaching values to the younger generation. God’s design for discipleship ensures that biblical values are sustained in cultures even if laws are passed with an attempt to circumvent biblical ways. To relationally transfer a virtue regardless of the law is to preserve a Gospel that cannot be stopped.

The purpose for women discipling women is to address gender specific virtues that are essential in maintaining godly relationships that develop God-fearing families. Older women play a very important role in Jesus’ mandate to “…go and make disciples of all nations… teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” (Mt. 28:19-20). It is an older woman’s example of her obedience to God that trains and qualifies her to train others to live in peace and make their homes places of love. It is not a question or suggestion; it is God’s design that each generation must give encouragement and guidance to the next.

John Adams once said, “From all that I have read of history and government of human life and manners, I have drawn this conclusion, that the manners of women were the most infallible barometer to ascertain the degree of morality and virtue of a nation. The Jews, Greeks, Romans, Swiss, and Dutch all lost their public spirit and republican form of government, when they lost the modesty and domestic virtues of their women.”