Wives, Submit to Your Husbands?!

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Marriage and Divorce

Wives, Submit to Your Husbands?!

13 min

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Marriage and Divorce

Wives, Submit to Your Husbands?!

13 min

Submission isn’t about ontological inferiority. Ontology has to do with your being or nature, and so when I say ontological inferiority, I’m highlighting that the call here for wives to submit to their husbands isn’t issued because women are by nature less than men. Both men and women are made in the image of God…they’re both joint heirs of eternal life through Jesus Christ.

What does Paul means in Ephesians 5 when he says “wives submit to your husbands”? Pastor Adriel Sanchez explains the meaning of this passage and unravels many of the misconceptions surrounding the biblical idea of “submission,” not only in marriage but in the church and Christian life.

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Adriel Sanchez is the pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church (PCA) in San Diego, CA. He received his theological training from Westminster Seminary California and serves as host of Core Christianity. Adriel is the author of Praying with Jesus and, most recently, Why We Worship: Experiencing Heaven on Earth at Church. He and his wife, Ysabel, have six children.

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