I attended a wedding at the weekend in which they had the reading from Ephesians which says “Wives submit to your husbands. Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the Church.” The minister took this reading as the inspiration for his sermon and told us that a 14 year old girl at Sunday School had asked him why the Bible was so oppressive towards women. She used that quote as an example.
He proceeded to say that he’d told her that the Bible wasn’t oppressive towards women because Christ loves the Church so much that he was happy to sacrifice himself for it and, therefore, if your husband loves you that much then why wouldn’t you want to follow him? “So I won that” he declared.
But of course he didn’t win that, he fundamentally misunderstood the question and it saddens me that he is teaching young women that they are second best, that they are not leaders and that their role in life is to marry and follow a man.