Happy Friday everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. Well, as many of you can imagine, when

one spouse gets saved and the other spouse does not, it leads to new tensions inside of

the home. Maybe you don't need to imagine such tensions. Maybe this is your reality. At

least five times we have addressed these tensions on the podcast in the past. You can see

APJ's 397 680 1029 1560 and 1690. And this now includes today's episode 1839. It's a

question from a woman who listens to the podcast. Here's her question. Dear Pastor John, hello.

Although I have always identified as a Christian, I just recently experienced the new birth as

a married woman with children at age 34. Praise God. That's awesome to hear. My husband,

however, is not a Christian. Jesus has transformed my life. And although my husband has been supportive

of me until now, he does not want me to be baptized. I feel the time has come for me to be

baptized, but I don't want to go against my husband's expressed wishes either Ephesians 5, 22,

24, says I should submit to my husband. 1st Peter 3, 1 speaks of the influence of a wife's

conduct on her non-believing husband. But I am called by Jesus to be baptized. So should I go

against my husband's wishes here. When all is said and done, my bottom line answer is going to be

yes. But for that act to be pleasing to the Lord, there is more that needs to be said. So let's

take a few minutes and think about this. The uniform teaching of the New Testament, whether it's

Ephesians 5 or 1st Corinthians 11 or Colossians 3 or 1st Peter 3, the uniform teaching is that husbands

are to be the head of their wives. The way Christ is the head of the church and that wives should

be in glad support of that leadership, that headship which the New Testament calls submission.

So I would define submission like this. The disposition of a wife's heart and mind

for the sake of Christ to give glad support to her husband's leadership.

And the reason I used that kind of definition, namely a disposition of heart and mind

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