Sunday, June 17, 2007

Your Husband is Your Jesus

So I am over at my mom's for Sunday dinner, and my 22 year old sister is in a dither. She recently attended a wedding where the scripture passages were 1st Corinthians 13 (standard) and Ephesians 5:22 et al (conveniently leaving out Ephesians 5:21). This was irritating, but she could deal. But then the pastor told the bride that he "You need to treat your husband as if he was Jesus, as if he was your savior." Then the minister goes on to say to her husband: "You need to treat this woman beside you [he wouldn't even use her name] as if she was the church and you are Jesus."

Now how the heck am I,(or anybody, for that matter) supposed to encourage young women to consider Christianity when THIS is the sort of thing that they get to hear at weddings?

1 comment:

Dave Lynch said...

Now how the heck am I,(or anybody, for that matter) supposed to encourage young women to consider Christianity when THIS is the sort of thing that they get to hear at weddings?

I think the husband should be like Jesus (I know this minister meant something different), he should wash his wife's feet and serve her, he should include her and be compassionate, he should LOVE and cherish, and the wife should be like this towards her husband, as they both should be toward their children.
In fact Jesus is the perfect model for every single relationship we can ever have, but that is not what this guy meant is it?
I understand your annoyance, interesting that he missed verse 21 as this is all a continuation of one long sentance.
good blog by the way
Dave