The New Eve - Lewis Robert [0]
Gayle Carpenter
Chief Administrative Officer
Leadership Network
“Robert Lewis sounds a much-needed message as he calls women to walk in the feminine freedom and fullness that result from embracing our core biblical callings. The New Eve dispels the current cultural fog regarding what it means to be a woman by looking to God's design, as revealed in the Scripture, for wisdom, insight, and direction.”
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Author and
Host of Revive Our Hearts radio
“Women today have unprecedented opportunities and possibilities before them, but this great new freedom also brings a new dilemma: how to make the best choices for their own good and that of their families. In The New Eve, Robert Lewis gives women of all ages a picture of what God intended for us from the beginning and a clear vision for how we make choices that liberate us to live with purposeful direction. No matter your stage in life, all women can benefit from his coaching. Having known Robert and his wife Sherard since college, I can confidently say this is not just great material. It is a reflection of two godly people who are always working to live marriage and family as God intended. I highly recommend it and hope it will be widely read.”
Barbara Rainey
FamilyLife Cofounder
and Author
To women everywhere
who are bold enough
to trust Jesus Christ
with their lives and their priorities.
Eternity belongs to you.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. I Am Woman
2. The View behind the Choices You Make
3. What the Issues Are
4. A Gender Journey into Genesis
5. Eve and the Fall
6. The Power of Gender Vision
7. The Seasons of a Woman's Life (Part 1)
8. The Seasons of a Woman's Life (Part 2)
9. Choosing to Live with Purpose
10. Engaging a Man
11. The Best Marriages—the Happiest Wives
12. Your Biggest Challenge, Your First Bold Move
Postscript: How You and Your Family Shape the Future
Small Group Study Guide and Discussion Questions
Notes
Foreword
I never thought a book written by a man could give me such an eye-opening picture of who I should be as a woman—or that it would have such a big impact on my life.
It will impact your life, too … if you let it.
It's All about How We Are Designed
Many of you might be familiar with Robert Lewis' organization, Men's Fraternity, that has somehow attracted hundreds of thousands of bleary-eyed men into early-morning video Bible studies across the country. While we might have thought men just wanted to have their own version of a good Beth Moore talking-to, there was something much deeper attracting these guys. Robert was giving them a vision, a model for what it means to be a godly, biblically-guided man in a culture that no longer agrees on what that ideal looks like—or whether it's even necessary. A model that men could measure their personal and professional life by … and a challenge to change it if it didn't measure up.
Well, ladies, it's our turn. Many of us try to live a godly life and follow the Bible's specific precepts. But without ever intending to, we could still be fighting against how God has designed us—simply because the world of women looks so very different from the way it did in biblical times and we haven't had a modern-day model to go by.
This is not just an academic issue. We have professional and personal choices that were unheard of for women two thousand years ago; but God has still designed us as women in a specific way, and that design affects everything in our lives, whether we like it or not. Reading this book, I finally realized: I can commit my daily life and my eternal future to Christ, and I can try to follow the Bible's directives as best I can—but my most important