Spheres

I was at a church gathering last sunday night where we watched some of Focus on the Family's "The Truth Project" (which is really good by the way.) One of the things the person teaching did, was he had a graph which had several different colored spheres. One said "God", another said "Family" another said "Church" another said "Labor" etc. etc. His point was that we need to be careful not to confuse spheres...in other words, just b/c God says "Wives, submit to your husbands" in Ephesians (a command relevant to the sphere of family) or, in 1 Timothy, "I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man", a command relevant to the sphere of Church, does not mean that man cannot work somewhere just because he has a woman supervising him, or whatever. (Which doesn't involve the sphere of family or church, but of labor.)

He then made a passing reference that in his study of Scripture, he hasn't seen any passage that would indicate that it is unbiblical for a woman to be in authority over a man in the area of labor or, incidentally, in politics. Obviously this is relevant to us now, since the thought of Hillary Clinton being president may soon become a reality.

Now, one could argue (which I'm not going to right now) that it would be unbiblical to vote for Hillary b/c of her stance on abortion or some other issue. However, my question is; is it unbiblical to vote for Hillary b/c she is a woman? This isn't a chauvinistic questions, I simply want to know if you all think it's biblical for a woman to be in authority of an entire nation.

Spiritual Warfare

Hey what's up people. First let me start by saying that Baron Davis is a baller.

Ok now that we have that out of the way...last night they showed the first DVD of the Truth Project at Metro Life (my church) and it was sweet. I'd already seen it, but it was wonderful to be hear, yet again, about the importance of truth. One of the things that is stressed is the idea of what the Truth Project calls the "cosmic battle" the great fight between Truth and Lies, and everything that that entails.

After the 45 minute presentation, we broke down into small groups, and one of the guys in my small group said something very profound. Joey asked the question, "do we live our lives as if we're actually in a 'cosmic battle.'" At the risk of misrepresenting what he said, the man said something to the degree of, "In America, with all our blessings and comforts, it's hard to imagine ourselves in any sort of spiritual battle, or even a cosmic battle. It's hard to pray 'give us our daily bread' when there's a roast in the oven. In some third world countries, when they say 'give us our daily bread' it's b/c they need something to eat! That might be why it's so much easier to see themselves in a battle."

It reminded me of a part of Randy Alcorn's book Safely Home where Ben asks "why aren't there demons in America?" and Li answers "There are. In America demons have much nicer voices."

My question is a weird one: do you guys think there's more demons/spiritual warfare in Third World countries, or do you think in America we're simply blinded by our comforts/blessings/entertainment?