Let's Talk About Submission
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Submission is a biblical principle that will help your marriage. But what does it look like to practice it? John talks with Greg about what submission is not, and Erin discusses the power of an encouraging wife. Featuring Pastor Levi Lusko, Jennie Lusko and Jean Daly.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.2 | It's not politically correct, but submission is a biblical principle. It's a |
| 0:39.5 | concept that we would do well to recognize and employ in our marriages if we |
| 0:45.1 | want to thrive as a couple. But when you hear that word submission, what do |
| 0:50.0 | you think? What do you feel? My wife is kind of a strong-willed individual. |
| 0:54.4 | She sort of feels like, yeah, I'll tell you what submission is. And maybe that's |
| 0:58.6 | you or your spouse. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife |
| 1:03.0 | Aaron and they are in charge of our marriage department here at the ministry. |
| 1:07.0 | Greg, as we discuss what submission is, why don't we start with what it is not. |
| 1:12.8 | And by the way, for our listeners, you smirked at the first mention of the |
| 1:17.1 | word. So wondering what Aaron was going to say or thinking about what you might |
| 1:23.8 | say. Well, I think it was more that I was thinking, why are we asking the guys about submission? |
| 1:29.5 | I was asking everybody. Yeah. Well, I would actually say that the very clearly |
| 1:35.7 | submission is not blind or quiet obedience. It's not a woman being a weak |
| 1:42.1 | doormat. It's not when a woman has to deny her opinions, desires, and feelings or |
| 1:49.2 | like the husband kind of unilaterally. So in a solo way, makes all the decisions. |
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