Saturday, September 23, 2017

Christian relationships: family and household

Ephesians 5:22-33
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her  to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,  and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
For we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
So the Christian wife gives her huomplete respect and loyalty; the Christian husband cares for his wife with unselfish, undemanding love. Each depends on the other, and both model themselves on Christ. Their relationship , in turn, reflects the relatioship Chris has with his church.
Why?
Paul taught how to care the household and the relationship between husband and wife. They are one body, love each other, husband is the head of wife like Christ is the head of church. But husband should love wife, caring his wife as love the church and give himself up for her to make her holy.
If married with a non-Christian, it is uneasy to live out the relationship of Christian couple. But it is possible to become Christian couple.
How?
Follow the word of bible and love my wife as my own body. My wife and me is one flesh.

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