Automated reply from United Force Challenge Course Day 40

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Greetings friend,


As Martha Peace says, "Many women, even Christian ones, are confused and 
sometimes hostile about what it means for a wife to be submissive to her 
husband. The topic is much maligned and misunderstood both in the world and in 
the church." There are three prevalent wrong views of submission, one of which 
Martha Peace calls "doormat theology"--when a woman is submissive to her 
husband even when he is sinning against her. Another wrong view is 
asceticism--when a wife strictly denies herself and suffers unnecessarily 
(Colossians 2:18-23), feeling that she is "suffering for the Lord". The third 
wrong view is feminism, which manifests itself in the church as an emphasis on 
the "mutual" submission of the husband and wife. The pastors teach this instead 
of teaching clearly the responsibility of the wife to submit to her husband, 
because this teaching is so volatile.


God made us subject to (or hupotasso in the Greek) our husbands so that there 
will be harmony in the home. He is not a respecter of persons, He regards men 
and women as equal regarding salvation. But as Christ subordinated Himself to 
the will of the Father (Philippians 2:5-8), so we submit ourselves to our 
husbands so that we can be a suitable helper and God's plan for the family can 
be carried out.