Marriage in three words:

• Mutuality
• Love
• Respect

         Digging into the Text:

          “For wives, this means submit to your husbands…”

                  Submit = Responsible with him

• When submission is given willingly, voluntarily—it becomes an act of selflessness.
• But when another demands submission—it becomes and act of selfishness.

         “…and the wife must respect her husband.”

Respect = Phobeo—fear, be in awe, revere, highly value

CRAZY CYCLE:

• A wife doesn’t feel loved, so she refuses to show respect
• A husband doesn’t feel respected so he refuses to show love
• And on and on it goes

         Living out the Text:

• Take the Leap
  
• Say it…out loud
  
• Read the Sign

                                    The disrespect barometer: Anger

• Seize the Power

Final thought: Wives, it is possible that never are you more like Christ than when you respect your husband out of reverence to Christ.

Resources:

For Women Only: what you need to know about the inner lives of men, by Shaunti Feldhahn

Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs

The Good Girls Guide to Great Sex, by Sheila Wray Gregoire