"Yes," said the director. "There is no escape. If it were a virginal rejection of the male, He would allow it. Such souls can bypass the male and go on to meet something far more masculine, higher up, to which they must make yet deeper surrender. But your trouble has been what the old poets call Daugnier. We call it pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing--the gold lion, the bearded bull--which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed. The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it. You had better agree with your adversary quickly.""You mean I shall have to become a Christian?" said Jane."It looks like it," said the Director.
This is why the church is called the "bride of Christ." We are all feminine in relation to Him. This is also why men were given the unenviable office of headship in all spheres: the family, the church, and should we even say the state?
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I have never given too much thought to how men feel about being the "bride" of Christ, for I have always considered it a glorious position. Differentiating between "male" and "masculine" perhaps gives men an easier way to identify. As a woman, being a bride is magnificent! And even more when considering Christ the Bridegroom.
Haha, I appreciate your use of the word "unenviable." Christlikeness in leadership is not always a happy road. "The First Blast of the Trumpet," anyone?
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