As her son got older, she realized there were no older role models for him. So in a dramatic move that surprised all of us that knew her well, she started attending a very traditional service. We knew she preferred the livelier worship in the contemporary services, but she said that she got a good feeling worshipping in a church of mature men who offered a stability and steadfastness that she had been missing. He mentions they should not be slanderers. We ve all heard of churches where the women s groups were known as the Women s Gossip Circle.
Some people seem to get pleasure in spreading bad news.
But we are not to be that way. Notice Paul says we should be teaching what is good. If we really care about others, we will not be slandering them. Years may pass over her head, but if benevolence and virtue dwell in her heart, she is as cheerful as when the spring of life first opened to her view. Verses 4-5 And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.