Pt. 9: Have We Misunderstood “Wives Submit”? – Women in Ministry Series

Many (not all) egalitarians say that the fundamental way that marriage works, in relationship to authority, has been widely misunderstood by Christians throughout history. They say that wives are not called to submit in any greater fashion than their husbands are. They say that the real biblical teaching is for “mutual submission.”

Today we will cover the main passages that seem to teach an authority imbalance in the marriage relationship, examine the context of each from a traditional, complementarian perspective, and then we’ll spend the majority of our time going over egalitarian claims that would offer linguistic, contextual and historical reasons for why that’s not what it means. They will generally say that a passage simply does not say that there is an authority imbalance in marriage, or that it does say that but it was only for a particular culture and a particular time.

After years of being a bit confused about the topic of women in ministry, I set out to spend months researching the topic in great detail to produce this exhaustive teaching series on the topic. This is part 9.

CLICK HERE for the playlist of ALL the videos in this series (more will be added as I make them).

You can also find more videos freely available here on my website.

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Time Stamps:

1. 10:36 Mike’s teaching through 1 Peter 3:1-7
2. 30:19 Mike’s teaching through Col. 3: 18-19
3. 35:04 Mike’s teaching through Titus 2:5
4. 35:52 Mike’s teaching through Eph. 5: 21-33
5. 49:23 Mike’s teaching on 1 Cor. 7:3-5
6. 55:14 Egalitarian view of 1 Pet. 3:1-7
7. 1:21:55 Egalitarian view of Col. 3: 18-19
8. 1:30:45 Egalitarian view of Eph. 5: 21-36
9. 2:40:47 The slavery objection
10. 3:05:07 Conclusion