Last week, Kirk Cameron was the eye of the target (again), because of his comments about marriage. He came under fire for saying that “Wives are to honor and respect and follow their husband’s lead, not to tell their husband how he ought to be a better husband. When each person gets their part right, regardless of how their spouse is treating them, there is hope for real change in their marriage.” Due to the fact that he is an outspoken Christian, almost anything he says to or on mainstream news, it’s going to cause friction. Many people may see this comment and get angry. I will admit that I can see why. I also want to say that when you look at his comment, you can see some of his thoughts and opinion, but scripture at the heart of it.
In Ephesian 5:22-24, the Apostle Paul writes: “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”
First off, before we go any further, we have to understand that we live in days where many men and women don’t know their identities within marriages and abuse their role. Many men are abusive (physically and emotionally) and many women are prideful and/or scornful. I truly don’t believe that Kirk was implying for women to bow down to aggressive men in relationships or to not have any rights or voice in a marriage. When I think of his commitment to his marriage for almost 30 years and reading this verse, I feel that he is making a charge/standard for men to be real men again. It’s time for us to start showing woman that we can lead and also submit and serve our wives and families. That is the key point that Christ has done as the head of the church. He laid his life down for it. Men… give your wives a reason to want to submit to you. Don’t take advantage of scripture and become a lazy leader. The scripture also states, “Submit to one another…and Husbands, loves your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…” As he said, once we both commit to doing our parts, we can both have a successful marriage.
Rather than getting mad at Kirk Cameron (because obviously it has been working in his house), have a Mirror Moment and see if you BOTH are submitting to each other. Spread The Soup!
