Kristen

Craig, I like what you’ve written a lot. I would suggest that you add in there, something along the lines that husbands are not to their wives everything Christ is to the church (such as redeemer or diety– Mark will surely not disagree with this), and that therefore husbands must not try to be more to their wives than “head” to their wives’ “body.” As for what that relationship entails, let Paul himself define it in the Letter to the Ephesians. The head-body relationship of Christ and the church in the Book of Ephesians is simply not pictured in terms of the head’s authority over the body, but in terms of the unity of the head and body, the provision and nurture from the head to the body, and the raising up of the body to be with the head.