Submitting to your husband when you think he's wrong on this edition of Truth and 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 that people face. Our guest on the podcast this week is Caroline Neuheiser. She is a certified

member of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, and she is the wife to Jim Neuheiser,

a fellow at ACBC and a member of the board. And we are here this week

with Caroline to talk about the issue not just of submission of a wife to her husband, but a wife's

submission to her husband when she actually believes he's wrong. And before we get to the most

sensitive areas of the discussion, Caroline, I want to ask you just

initially, why should Christians be concerned about the topic of submission at all?

What's the issue with a wife submitting to her husband, and why is that a concern for Christians?

That is a very good question, Heath, because our culture is against, teaching against submission.

So our culture is telling us that we should be our own woman and not honor the structure which God gives in the Bible.

And clearly in the beginning, he said Eve was to be a help to her husband.

And that is the role of a wife.

And submission fits into that because her job as a helper is to follow respectfully his leadership.

And because God wrote the plan for marriage and it's the best plan, then that's why we want to

talk about it.

Okay, so Christians care about submission because God does and he tells us about it in the Bible.

What is submission, though?

There's so many different understandings of it out there.

People can have a negative response to the idea and find out later they didn't even

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