Who’s the Boss?

I read an interesting article on the Ethics Daily (Baptist Center for Ethics site).    Visit this link and read the article:

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=10675

Read this article and let me know what you think.  I personally believe that much of the troubles in life are arguing about who is the boss and who is to have power.  Relationships that get into that lead to trouble.  Why can’t husbands and wives work together as partners before God?  Ephesians has that famous passage about women’s submitting but it begins with 5:21, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”  I believe that sets the tone for that whole passage.  Paul goes on to talk about how this mutual submission/partnership works.  He describes ways the man can do this and the ways the woman can.  Blaming women for sin isn’t helpful or true (Adam was there-read Genesis-he was silent partner but a partner none the less).  We can pull scripture out of the text and argue for lots of things (slavery, etc) but the entire scope of the Bible must work together and for me that means family is about giving and taking, working together, and being partners before the Lord.  When I start puffing my chest out and arguing that I’m the king of the castle and my wife needs to do what I say well that isn’t very Christian to me.

So let’s work together to serve a risen Savior and help our kids (if we have them) know Christ as well.  Let’s learn to listen to one another, love one another, and partner as God’s children in a fallen world.