During a wedding rehearsal, the groom approached the pastor with an unusual offer: “Look, I’ll give you $100 if you’ll change the wedding vows. Just leave out the part about ‘love, honor and be faithful to her forever.’ He slipped the minister a $100 bill and walked away satisfied.
On the day of the wedding, when it came time for the groom’s vows, the pastor looked the young man in the eye and said, “Will you promise to obey her every command and wish, serve her breakfast in bed every morning of your life, and swear eternally before God that you’ll never even look at another woman, as long as you both shall live?”
The groom gulped and looked around, and said in a tiny voice, “Yes,” then leaned toward the pastor and hissed, “I thought we had a deal.”
The pastor put the $100 bill into the groom’s hand and whispered, “She made me a better offer.”
We laugh at how extreme those wedding vows are, but many people today would look at our text-and say “That is extreme.” 1 Pet. 3:1 says, “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands…”
Why does that idea sound so repulsive to modern Americans? Why is “submission” such a dirty word today?
I think the primary reason is abuse, so before we look at what this passage says submission is, let’s see what it’s not?
March 29th through April 3rd, a group of 12 men will be going to the Wilds Christian Camp in Brevard, NC to help with building projects. If you are in this group, please join us for a meeting after the morning service in the south overflow.
Every year we try to send a team of men from our church who enjoy using power tools for the glory of God. In 2006, we sent a Gulf Relief Team to help Christians and a church in Waveland, MS after Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, we sent a work team to help with the construction of the Creation Museum near Cincinnati. In 2008, we sent a Flood Relief Team to help a sister church in Martinsville. Last spring we sent a work team to the Wilds Christian Camp and Conference Center in Brevard, NC. On November 29th, the team gave a report. Here are pictures from their trip.
