A podcast listener named Ted writes in, Pastor John, I understand that episode number 798

could a complementarian, egalitarian marriage work was a warning for anyone entering into

marriage.

But what about those of us who find ourselves already in a complementarian, egalitarian marriage

already?

According to you, Pastor John, it is a sin to leave it, and it is a sin to sacrifice

conscience to make the marriage work.

What options does a complementarian husband have in such a situation?

I found this question to be very helpful.

In fact, I think I'm going to have to correct something that I said in number 798.

The main point of that podcast that Pastor John stands, I think, namely that I would discourage

a marriage between two believers with deeply held but contradictory views of the roles

of husband and wife, that is one being a egalitarian and one being a complementarian.

I think it will also stand that if such a marriage goes forward or has already happened,

which is what we're being asked about, it is inevitable that the effort to make it

work will involve sin.

Now, I'll explain in a minute what I mean by that phrase, involve sin.

It's a different way of saying it than I said in episode 798.

Here's where the correction is needed and what I said.

What I stressed there was that the reason there would be sin in such a marriage inevitably

is that the contents of one or the other spouse would have to be compromised to make the

marriage work and it is a sin to compromise your conscience.

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