Jordan Independent - Dealing with Ephesians - Comments

KoolD, I think you're right

Mathias Baden — Mon, 21 May 2007 10:53:55 -0500

KoolD, I think you're right on. The whole passage is about submission to each other in love. There are a lot of great examples in here.

What a great link, by the way. Thanks.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

Mathias, I think that the

KoolD — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:18:40 -0500

Mathias,

I think that the use of the word "Submit" is one that perhaps could have been used differently. In the years being involved in the Body of Christ. I have seen times where the use of the word, was convenient for some men. They would use it as a club. Too bad. Because I believe that we are not called to make anyone submit. We are called to love one another. Perhaps submission because we love would be more accurate. I would do something for someone because I care...Not because I can make them do anything. That would not be love, that is control.

In a marriage. We love and we give. We share and we share more. I think that Paul was describing love in action. He called to love as Christ loved the church. I think one can derive from that statement. That we are to be reciprocal to our mates. We are to lay down our lives if called to for the ones we love.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Eph&chapter=5&verse...

Dealing with Ephesians

Mathias Baden — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:50:03 -0500

I'll be honest with you -- I struggle with some of what the Apostle Paul has written in Ephesians 5, one of my Bible readings earlier this week.