Aim: To (further) encourage supernatural living in the church (in evil days).
Doctrine: The believing husband is to imitate Christ's love for the church, through self-sacrifice and through ''wife-sanctification.''
Exegesis: How Jesus' example inspires church husbands: love for our wives is to be wholehearted (v. 25), covenantal (v. 26), and persevering (v. 27).
Further application: Helps in promoting church husbands' growing love for their wives: first, diligently seek to understand (and accept) them; then, recognize that much happiness (largely) hinges (on this love).
Key verse: v. 25 ''Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her...''
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Rev. Mark Henninger is a retired, ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div). He is married to his wife, Lesley, and together they have one daughter and...
