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Ask Pastor John

How Do I Submit to My Unbelieving Husband?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A wife’s submission to her husband is qualified submission. She follows Jesus first, and then does whatever she can to honor her husband’s leadership.

Transcript

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0:00.0

As of this moment, as I record Pastor John and Noel are on a ministry trip through Holland,

0:09.0

France, and Germany.

0:11.2

Earlier in the year, they were in South America.

0:13.0

You might remember, earlier in the spring, they were in Ireland and in Edinburgh.

0:17.5

All those trips being ministry trips on behalf of Desiring God and I know several financial

0:22.2

partners are listening and you make those trips possible.

0:27.0

Thank you for your partnership with us.

0:30.7

Looking back when Pastor John was on his trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, he answered questions

0:35.5

from the audience in one setting.

0:38.1

And one of those questions was, normal, wife who is a Christian but is married to an unbelieving

0:42.1

husband.

0:43.1

And she asks, where do I draw the boundary lines in my submission to him?

0:47.7

Here is the interchange moderated by local pastor and church planter, Andy Prime, have

0:53.3

a listen.

0:54.4

Staying within the contents of family, someone has asked, I was saved after I got married.

0:59.3

I accept the biblical teaching that my husband is ahead of the house and family.

1:03.3

What advice do you give to a woman in this situation?

1:05.8

So I am presuming that the husband is an unbeliever.

1:09.8

An unbeliever?

1:10.8

A presumed.

1:11.8

Well, there is the text written for you.

1:12.8

It is the first Peter 3.1 to 6.

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