Quotable quotes captured by conference attendees on Twitter from this morning’s general session.
- Everything that comes before Eph. 5:22 is not cancelled in this passage, but focused. Whole letter must be taken into account.
- This is about how you treat your husband or wife. Wives to their very own husbands: This is not a male/female thing.
- 2/3 of Eph 5:22 ff is about Christ/gospel. Teptation is to ignore this in favor of focusing on marriage.
- Submission: it isn’t about REVERENCE, it is about the fear of God. Biblical Fear = Under the good of another person.
- Within submissive relationships, we are free to disagree well.
Temptation to “yes, but” Eph. 5. But passage actually teaching us to tackle problems; care for spouses despite their shortcomings.- Submission is a posture of love to another that brings the grace of Christ to them. It’s NOT about being a doormat.
- We are to be oriented towards each other under ultimate submission to Christ. Alternative is self-centeredness.
- We are called to honor all people. That call has specific implications in specific relationships.
- Submission is not “Lay down who you are and become a doormat.”
- There is honesty in submission; “it is the fragrance in my life”
- In confrontation with others, we still must remember our role in honoring them.
- “I am to move toward my wife in mercy. Hard to do. I need the blazing Sun or else I become a flickering 3watt light bulb.”
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