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Husbands Direct Righteous Living in the Home

Husbands Direct Righteous Living in the Home
Mormon Doctrine / Teachings

" 'Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it' (Eph. 5:25). With that kind of love, brethren, we will be better husbands and fathers, more loving and spiritual leaders. Happiness at home is most likely to be achieved when practices there are founded upon the teachings of Jesus Christ (see Ensign, Nov. 1995, 102). Ours is the responsibility to ensure that we have family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening. Ours is the responsibility to prepare our children to receive the ordinances of salvation and exaltation and the blessings promised to tithe payers. Ours is the privilege to bestow priesthood blessings of healing, comfort, and direction."

Russell M. Nelson, "Our Sacred Duty to Honor Women," Ensign, May 1999, 39-40

Topics: Melchizedek Priesthood

Source: Family Gems

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This is the ideal picture which strive to emulate. The reality I have seen most often is that it is the mother in the home who ensures that we have family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening.
Also, too often men mistakenly interpret being patriarch and head of the home to mean they are the ultimate command in the home and what they say goes regardless. This translates into unrighteous dominion. We can only achieve the ideal picture of family if the father is leading in righteousness.

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Very true Alskann. Of course, every family is different but overall it does seem like it is the woman who tries her best to make sure all these spiritual activities take place in the home. Interesting.

I agree with you about unrighteous dominion specially on very sensitive topics husbands and wives don't agree with. If the husband decides to do his own thing because he is the "head" of the home that's unfair. Both should decide things and prayerfully consider how things should be run at their home.