Men and Women, Take Heart.

Sisters in this Great Faith, I have learned great things today that will make you happier, unless you already knew it, then it won’t matter as much. But anyway, in my New Testament class today a group did a presentation on the Epistle of Ephesians and they did quite well. After they finished, the professor just wanted to bring out some key things of their presentation as well as of the book of Ephesians. One such thing we talked about was in Chapter 5 verses 22-33. “22Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” Now, I understand that the idea of the wife submitting to the husband tends to be a hot topic for women and a touchy subject, but I have good news, it doesn’t need to be that way! Yes, the woman’s command has been to submit to the man, but you can not stop there, for the scripture also gives a command for the man, to love his wife as he loves himself and to give of himself for her, making her holy and blameless. He calls for us to care for the woman, as Christ does for the church, they become one in flesh, just as Christ and the Church have become one because Jesus is the Bridegroom and the Church (us!) is the bride. Our sinful natures have caused us to think that there is a hierarchy involved in this that the man is high and mighty and the woman is his servant, heavens no! We are one, equal, it is we just have different callings, or vocations, within Church. The head of household, or the man, isn’t about a power thing, it is about the responsibility, those like the provider, and the protector, the teacher, and those types of things. I have used my incredible graphic talents to make diagrams to show what I mean.
The relationship between Husband and Wife is not like this:

MAN



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WOMAN

It is more like this:

MAN <---------->WOMAN

I sincerely hope that you notice the difference between the two. If not, I’m sorry, I don’t know how else to explain it. We could get into a big debate or whatever about the position of women in the church, but lets not, because I feel it’s the same way, but just a different case. But I do hope everyone understands the similarity, but also the difference between the man and women or Husband and Wife. God’s blessings on your day as you live life in Him and in His love and in awe at all the great things He has done and the wonder and beauty of this world He has created.

In Christ,
Adam

Let me hear what you think!

I decided that i wanted to try something I haven't done before, and also i'm running dry with things to say, but I've been reading the New testament and coming across some great verses in the Corinthians and I just wanted to post them up here for everyone who actually looks at this site can see them because they have been a great help to me and I only found them the other day. I love Pauls letters, they are full of an uplifting gospel message for the shear fact of that's why most of them were written, for encouragement and guidance for the early churches that Paul and other missionaries had help to establish during that time. The are a great read, much like most of the Bible, but you get what I mean.
The first verse is 1 Corinthians 15: 58:
"Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."

Next is 1 Corinthians 16: 13:
"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love."

And now, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5:
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows."

So let know what you think about those verses......comments welcome people! discuss! That's be cool!

In Christ,
Adam