Father, for this next little time together, please guide me.

There's so many questions that have come my way now that I could probably spend the whole time just responding to good questions.

And yet I've got some material here to work through and give me discernment as to where to linger and think out loud about questions and where to pursue the material.

It's grant a wonderful eagerness in everybody's heart to grow.

Some of us in this room feel discouraged and put upon because we're not there

as submissive wife or a leading husband, and we want to do better. I pray that would be the

mindset of everybody. We want to do better. And

we don't have to be all or nothing people. We can be incremental people. That's all we can do in

this world is try to go farther than where we are now. And who knows that if there were an

increment this year and another increment next year,

that 10 years from now it would have been a move that we would have thought undoable.

So work your incremental miracles or your revolutionary miracles in our hearts and minds.

I pray in Jesus' name.

Amen.

We're going to talk about submission next.

We could have done it from Ephesians 5, but it's more helpful I have found to do it from

1st Peter 3.

We'll go there in just a minute. So I'm trying to

figure out where to stick in questions that have come my way. And let me see. I make a judgment

call here. Just say a little more about spiritual leadership at home. That question down here and questions that have come my way last night and this morning

show that that's a huge issue um a lot of men have come into marriages they've they've either gotten

saved after marriage or they were baby Christians with very little training

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