Virtuous Woman of Proverbs 31: a Challenge for Contemporary Christian Family

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VIRTUOUS WOMAN OF PROVERBS 31: A CHALLENGE FOR CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN FAMILY BY Isaac Jesuvi Julius and Gbadero Michael O. Ph. D. INTRODUCTION The increase in corruption, moral decadence, and all sort of evil vices can be associated to imbalances in the family setting. The rate of divorce and instability in family is very high, due to nonchalant attitude of some Christian women. The biblical concept of virtuous is to be godly, reliable, morally sound and full of integrity. Many Christian women are not considering these virtues so important thus, there are hullabaloos, commotions, and separations. Gbadero opined that: “twenty first century Christian family structure has faced the challenges of materialism; women who are working in various offices apart from home apparently increase in secularization”1.The contemporary Christian family is passing through trend of secularization where governmental orders in the family are retched.The family as an entity was facing serious challenges from the seventeenth to the twentieth centurybecause the role of its individual members changed dramatically. Primarily in response to the Industrial Revolution, the family experienced fragmentation of time and space2 This paper evaluates the virtuous woman in the book of proverbs 31 as the basic groundwork for Christian family. Therefore, the pries of this paper is to unfold some ethical virtues in the life of the virtuous woman in the book of proverbs 31 as a biblical example to be exhibits in the contemporary Christian family. The work geared toward enriching marriage and family life. Family is a fundamental foundation of society. The position of family determine the condition of society, any society that will thrive politically, economically, socially and spiritually must enhance and standardize family. Christian Family Christian family in this concept is the

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