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Someone lamented that there used to be rip roaring Bible discussions on Acts. So I figured I’d post something controversial.The Bible tells wives to submit to their husbands in Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, and I Peter 3. This type of thing can make a lot of church-going people uncomfortable. It’s considered politically incorrect. I went to a church service a few years ago where the speaker spoke on the passage that mentions this in Ephesians 5. He read the part about wives submitting to their husbands, said that we had heard that preached on quite a bit, didn’t go into detail on the issue at all. Then he talked about how husbands had a much bigger weight with loving their wives like Christ loved the church and spent the rest of the sermon talking about the importance of communication in marriage.I can see why he said the command to husbands is harder. The thing is, though, I never hear Christian husbands try to argue their way out of needing to love their wives like Christ loves the church. We may admit we have a long way to go, but we generally accept that that is the standard, theoretically. But I’ve seen a lot of arguing out of wives submitting to their husbands, trying to redefine terms and things along that line. It really goes against the cultural grain.But I was thinking, I’m Gen X. I didn’t go to church in the ’60’s or ’70’s. I’ve heard some preachers say that wives are supposed to submit to their husbands from time to time. But I haven’t heard a lot of them, at least not where I went to church, talk about what that means. And the church I heard that sermon in was ‘seeker sensitive’, and I would imagine a lot of the people in the pew hadn’t seen wives submitting to their husbands modeled in their own households growing up, and probably hadn’t heard it taught on in depth at church.It seems like a lot of preacher treat wives submitting to husbands like the topic of divorce and don’t want to touch it with a ten-foot pole. Or else they tread very lightly. And some just go with the cultural flow and try to downplay it or outright argue against it. I’ve seen online, in video sermons, etc., people who don’t know Greek trying to redefine what the words mean. Something is seriously wrong with our cultures system of marriage. There are so many divorces and problems in marriages. This topic is only one tiny cog in a rather large machine.So my questions are these:Do many preachers neglect this topic?How does doing so effect marriages?What does a wife submitting to her husband look like________________