
LET’S TALK ABOUT IT – HOT TOPICS!
May 10 & 11, 2025 // Pastor Mike Berry
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 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. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:21–33, NIV
1. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE IS NOT SO MUCH A DECLARATION OF
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24, NIV
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6, ESV
2. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE HELPS US GROW
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:25–27, NIV
3. A CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE NEEDS EACH PERSON
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,
Ephesians 5:18, NIV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22–23, NIV
4. A CHRISTIAN
However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—”
1 Corinthians 2:9, NIV
Action Steps: What new thing would you like to see God do in your life and in your family? What do you need to do to make God the foundation of your family? What do you think God would say are your most important responsibilities? How can God make a difference in how you influence your family and the next generation? How can you do a better job of tapping into God’s peace, power and purpose?