Godly leadership in the home on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems

people face. Most of us live in homes and all of us have families, and the Bible speaks very

relevantly about the issue of family structure. One of the most important things that the Bible

teaches in this regard is that God has called men to leadership in the homes in their relationship

as husbands and fathers. Our special guest on the podcast today is Dr. Stuart Scott, who is the

professor of biblical counseling in the graduate program at Masters College. He's also an ACBC

certified counselor and the author of the exemplary husband.

Dr. Scott, when we talk about men being called to leadership in the home, what do we mean?

Well, that's a great question, Heath, and it's hard to tell what each person means when they think of leadership in the home.

They may mean going back to Genesis

1, where God first made Adam and made Eve to help Adam. And that theme runs all the way through

the scriptures. It surfaces again in 1 Corinthians 11, where Eve was made to help Adam as Adam followed Christ.

Ephesians 5 is another passage that talks about the husband being the head of his wife.

That's probably what they mean.

But before you can really understand leadership and headship in Ephesians 5,

Ephesians 1 through 4 and a half would really need to

precede it. Is this man rightly related to God through Jesus Christ? Is he living for God's glory?

Ephesians 4 talks about having a right attitude. And then loving his wife as Christ loved the church.

There's a lot involved in this headship and leadership, but they probably mean that

God holds the man responsible for the decisions and direction of his marriage and family.

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