Gender Differences

Pastor Bill Bush · Sep 3, 2018

Drawing on Genesis 2–3 and Ephesians 5, this sermon argues that God intentionally wired men and women differently, and that the brokenness of the fall drives wives toward fear-based control and husbands toward frustration-based domination. The remedy is mutual submission rooted in reverence for Christ: wives are called to lay down the desire to control — like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane — while husbands are called to sacrificial, self-giving love — like Jesus on the cross — putting their wives' well-being ahead of their own, regardless of what they receive in return.