What should older women teach younger women, according to the Bible?

Trent Moody explores the unique discipleship process outlined in Titus 2, emphasizing the role of older women in mentoring younger women, specifically in the context of home life, domestic duties, and relationships. Such mentorship is crucial because it helps younger women understand how to love their husbands and children effectively. The importance of this mentorship is underscored by the fact that it is seen as a safeguard against blaspheming God’s Word.

Moody encourages older women to focus primarily on teaching practical aspects of home life. The nurturing environment of a home, he argues, is the 'greenhouse' of the church, playing a critical role in shaping the future church community. By personally investing in the development of young mothers and children, older women can contribute significantly to the cause of Christ. 

Titus 2:3-5 (NKJV): “The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”

This discipleship process that we see in Titus 2, he limits that very to a subject that is very specific. And that mentorship of older women to younger women is very specifically ordered around the home life and domestic duties and domestic relationships. Like The older women are to come along beside these young women and help them to know how to love their husbands, how to love their children. The fascinating thing at the end of that verse or in that passage there is it says that, so the Word of God will not be blasphemed. And whenever we read something about blasphemy, our antennas should perk up, our ears should perk up and think, wow, this is a serious issue in the eyes of God.

And so we should take it serious as well and really focus our attention. I encourage older women to really focus that attention not on trying to teach necessarily all the deep doctrines, although they may come up within that subject, but specifically teaching these young women how to be wonderful keepers at home, how to love their husbands, how to love their children, and invest in them in that way. Because really, that's the growing ground. That's the greenhouse, if you will, of the church that's coming along. And to nurture those young children in that way and those young mothers in that way will actually do more for the cause of Christ than 10, 000 programs or you know all these different women's ministries and the program-driven method.