Posted on 07/20/2025 10:40:23 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The outspoken senior pastor of Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, Mark Driscoll, has drawn the ire of pro-life activist and Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins for calling Christian stay-at-home dads "worse than a non-Christian."
In a strong rebuke on X Sunday night, Driscoll invoked 1 Timothy 5:8, declaring: "A Christian man who doesn't work is worse than a non-Christian. This includes you, stay-at-home dads."
According to 1 Timothy 5:8, "Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
On Tuesday afternoon, Hawkins, who has overseen the growth of the activist organization to over 1,400 school and university campuses since 2006, vehemently disagreed with Driscoll and insisted he owes her husband an apology.
"@PastorMark owes my husband an apology for this post. My husband was a schoolteacher for 10 yrs, and we decided that, with two of our children having cystic fibrosis, he would stay at home to care for & teach our children while I continue to lead Students for Life to fight to end Planned Parenthood & the violence of abortion. He is 100% a Christian and the best example of a male role model I know," she said on X before further criticizing hypocritical pastors and conservative commentators.
"I'm 100% done with the 'manly' advice some pastors and other conservative commentators want to give men and women about what the role of men 'really should be.' Most of these men have cheated on their wives or have found to be in some other public sin. It's sickening," she argued while calling Driscoll's comment a "cheap shot" and asking if he doesn't consider taking care of his children "work."
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I guess it begs the question...can a man be the leader of his home without being the “bread winner”?
Don’t agree. One parent home with the kids is what is important. Why wouldn’t the parent who makes the most money be the one who does that??
My daughter-in-law has a disabled brother. When he was young, mom stayed at home. When he got older, especially during his teenage years, you had the mind of a toddler in the body of a burgeoning adult male.
Mom went to work and dad stayed home. Dad was strong enough to handle him.
Made perfect sense.
You either believe God’s word or you don’t. This is pretty clear.
Implied is the capability to provide and if you have the capability you are not following God’s word when you fail to provide.
Truth is not always comfortable but it ti the truth regardless.
Bingo...I think painting a picture that the man of house has to be the “bread winner” and Mom needs to stay home is a very broad brush.
Mark Driscoll is a man of God. I’m sure he did not think it through when he made this statement. I do believe that men need to be the LEADERS of their homes...sometimes leading is doing the SMART thing.
I can think of another example.
My sister-in-law’s husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He stayed home to raise their daughter and she earns great money as a CPA. Again, makes sense.
Now, if the husband is just munching on cheetos and playing video games, the pastor would be correct.
Most of these preachers sound pretty unbiblical whenever they open their pieholes
There's exceptions to every rule. But most of the time, your wife is going to despise you if she has to "bring home the bacon" while you're staying at home raising the kids.
Something to do with evolutionary biology, she'll find you as an unfit mate.
It works much better the other way around.
I can think of another example.
My sister-in-law’s husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He stayed home to raise their daughter and she earns great money as a CPA. Again, makes sense.
Now, if the husband is just munching on cheetos and playing video games, the pastor would be correct.
“1 Timothy 5:8, declaring: “A Christian man who doesn’t work is worse than a non-Christian. This includes you, stay-at-home dads.”
Really silly. A stay at home dad is presumably caring for the household and the children = working (in the home).
No we know what this pastor thinks of women who stay at home to care for their children.
“1 Timothy 5:8, declaring: “A Christian man who doesn’t work is worse than a non-Christian. This includes you, stay-at-home dads.”
Really silly. A stay at home dad is presumably caring for the household and the children = working (in the home).
NOW we know what this pastor thinks of women who stay at home to care for their children.
‘ if the husband is just munching on cheetos and playing video games, the pastor would be correct.’
Agreed.
Exactly.
“But most of the time, your wife is going to despise you if she has to “bring home the bacon” while you’re staying at home raising the kids.”
That might have been the case in the past, but women are more used to working outside of the home now. It would seem that older, more established in the workplace women are who are giving birth now, so being the breadwinner isn’t a new thing to them.
Of course, I would think a lot of women would PREFER to be the stay at home parent, but I’m older so that’s how I think. Younger women probably think differently.
That this pastor would take Scripture and use it to bludgeon stay at home parents is just silly and reckless.
Human nature is not going to change even if we are becoming more "modern".
If she is forced to work so you can stay at home, she'll resent you for doing that. Even though she may not say that to you.
Because that means the husband is the bit@h and has to submit. Not everything is about money.
So, farmer dads? All dads whose businesses are also on their personal property?
Also dads raise kids better. Stats on single dads vs single moms shows the kids turn out better on every measureable statistic.
Of course. There more to being head of the family then money. I couldn’t do it because I’d be so bored. But if someone chooses this, why not? This idiot pastor makes the religion look bad. What does the New Testament say about it?
I just read that Timothy is New Testament. Well people make their own choices. This is a sin worth risking.
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