Let's say your spouse refuses to embrace God's design for them. Dr. Bruce Ware says you still need to embrace God's design for you.

So my responsibility in my marriage is not my wife. My responsibility in my church is not the elder, the pastor. My responsibility is my own before the Lord.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Wacklemouth, co-author of True Woman 101, for April 16, 2018. Everyone, whether man or woman, is called to submit to someone.

We'll find out why as we continue to explore the true woman manifesto.

Last week, Nancy told us about one of the affirmations of that manifesto.

It says we affirm that men and women are both created in the image of God. No controversy so far.

And are equal in value and dignity. So far so good. But here's where the rub comes. We affirm that they have distinct

roles and functions in the home and in the church. We're taking a break from Nancy's teaching to

hear from a biblical scholar who has thought a lot about manhood and womanhood. Nancy?

Well, I have no doubt that we will be getting a lot of emails in response to the series

we're airing this week, and that's a good thing. Thank you for writing to us and sharing with

us how God is using this ministry in your life, but also questions that you have, illustrations

out of your own life as God is working in these areas in your life.

We love to hear that.

And we don't even mind people writing and saying, I disagree.

But what we want to do in this ministry is keep pointing people back to the Word of God.

That's our authority.

And we're talking with Dr. Bruce Ware

this week about biblical manhood and womanhood in particular. Dr. Ware is a professor at the

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. And thank you, Dr. Ware, for joining

us this week on Revive Our Hearts. You're very welcome, Nancy. It's a great pleasure to be with you.

And let me just say to our listeners that one of the commitments I made years ago,

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