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To dIe for...

To dIe for... . A series in 1 Peter. Order in the Home Pt 1: ‘Marriage and Men’ 1 Peter 3:1-7. ‘Egalitarian’ & ‘Complementarian’ . ‘Egalitarian’ & ‘Complementarian’ . ‘Egalitarian’ ‘Complementarian’ . ‘ The husband is the head of the wife’ . Eph 5:23 Wrong concepts of male headship:

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  1. To dIe for... A series in 1 Peter Order in the Home Pt 1: • ‘Marriage and Men’ • 1 Peter 3:1-7

  2. ‘Egalitarian’ & ‘Complementarian’ ‘Egalitarian’ & ‘Complementarian’ ‘Egalitarian’ ‘Complementarian’

  3. ‘The husband is the head of the wife’. Eph 5:23 Wrong concepts of male headship: • No where in the Bible is the husband commanded to exercise headship over his wife! • Headship is never a means for the husband to get his own way! • Headship is not the power of a superior over an inferior. • Headship doesn’t mean that the husband has to make every decision in the home!

  4. ‘The husband is the head of the wife’. Eph 5:23 So what is headship? “The divine calling on a man to take primary responsibility to lead his wife and family into the fullness of Christian maturity and to love them like Christ loved the church”. (Sam Storms)

  5. So what is headship? • Headship is more a responsibility than a right! • Headship is the authority to serve

  6. ‘If headship means power in any sense then it is power to care not to crush, power to serve not to dominate, to facilitate other self fulfilment, not to frustrate or destroy it, and in all this the standard of the husbands love is to be the cross of Christ on which he surrendered himself to death for love of his bride’. John Stott (Theologian)

  7. So what is headship? • Headship is more a responsibility than a right! • Headship is the authority to serve • Headship is the opportunity to lead. • instruction • example • delegation • Headship is limited. • Headship involves taking responsibility to make decisions • Headship involves being gentle and sensitive – Cp Colossians 3:19 & 21.

  8. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. Colossians 3:19 &21 

  9. So what is headship? • Headship is more a responsibility than a right! • Headship is the authority to serve • Headship is the opportunity to lead. • instruction • example • delegation • Headship is limited. • Headship involves taking responsibility to make decisions • Headship involves being gentle and sensitive – Cp Colossians 3:19 & 21. • Headship means loving wife and family as much as self - Ephesians 5:28.

  10. Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. Ephesians 5:28

  11. So what is headship? • Headship is more a responsibility than a right! • Headship is the authority to serve • Headship is the opportunity to lead. • instruction • example • delegation • Headship is limited. • Headship involves taking responsibility to make decisions • Headship involves being gentle and sensitive - Cp Colossians 3:19 & 21. • Headship means loving wife and family as much as self - Ephesians 5:28 • Headship means loving our wives as much as Christ loved the church - Ephesians 5:25.

  12. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Ephesians 5:25

  13. So what is headship? • Headship is more a responsibility than a right! • Headship is the authority to serve • Headship is the opportunity to lead. • instruction • example • delegation • Headship is limited. • Headship involves taking responsibility to make decisions • Headship involves being gentle and sensitive - Cp Colossians 3:19 & 21. • Headship means loving wife and family as much as self - Ephesians 5:28. • Headship means loving our wives as much as Christ loved the church - Ephesians 5:25.

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