Kay

As you pointed out earlier, Kristin, the Christ/Church analogy can only be take so far or it becomes idolatry.
Ephesians doesn’t say that “just like Christ, husbands are capable of saving, sanctifying and cleansing their wives.” So, Paul is most certainly not saying the husband is to the wife as Christ is to the church in *every* way.
Only verse 25 applies to husbands:
“Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it”,

…obviously, verses 26-27, “so that He might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word, and might present the church to Himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault,” -DO NOT*.

The passage never even mentions Christ’s authority or His leading of the Church – that is found nowhere in this analogy.