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    For Married Women Only: Three Principles for Honoring Your Husband
    For Married Women Only: Three Principles for Honoring Your Husband
    For Married Women Only: Three Principles for Honoring Your Husband
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    For Married Women Only: Three Principles for Honoring Your Husband

    By Tony Evans

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    How is a wife to love her husband? By learning three things, says Tony Evans: how to submit, seduce, and surrender to her husband. Out of these three principles a godly marriage will grow.

    In For Married Women Only, pastor and author Tony Evans explores these three principles in a straight-forward yet encouraging manner. He unpacks the touchy topic of submission and lays out the rewards inherent in this biblical model. On seduction, Evans looks at the quality of attractiveness and how embodying it can be pleasing to your spouse and to God. And with surrender, readers will examine why a wife is the perfect help mate for her husband and how to combat attitudes opposed to God’s design.

    Originally published in 2002 as Tony Evans Speaks Out on a Woman’s Role in the Home, this booklet has sold nearly 38,000 copies. Use it alone or with the companion volume, For Married Men Only.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJul 1, 2010
    ISBN9781575675619
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    Tony Evans

    Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, founder and president of the Urban Alternative, former chaplain of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and present chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on nearly 1,000 US radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit TonyEvans.org.

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      Short but spot on. If your desire is to have a solid home founded on Christ, you should read this.

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    THE SKILL OF SUBMISSION

    The story is told of two escaped prisoners who were on the run through the woods when they heard the tracking dogs barking behind them and realized the guards were closing in. The first prisoner scrambled up a tree in the hopes of throwing the dogs off. The second prisoner decided he would do the same thing and ran to a nearby tree, which he also climbed.

    As the prisoners hid among the branches and listened, the dogs grew closer. Before long they were barking at the base of the tree where the first prisoner was hiding. He was a quick thinker, so he started saying, Coo, coo, coo.

    The prison guards jerked the dogs back from the tree and said, Come on, let’s go. There’s nothing up there but a bird.

    Then the guards came to the tree where the second prisoner was hiding. As the dogs started barking and jumping at the tree, this prisoner panicked. He wasn’t as quick as the first prisoner, but he had heard the guy throw the dogs off by making a bird noise and realized he also needed to make some kind of animal sound. So he thought for a second and then said, Moo, moo, moo.

    When you’re confused about what you are supposed to be doing, you wind up making the wrong noise at the wrong time in the wrong place! We see Christian couples today who are making a lot of noise, complaining about their spouses and their marriages, when the truth is they have neglected their own biblical roles and become confused about what they are supposed to be doing. We could say they’re mooing when they ought to be cooing.

    Now I want you to know right up front that even though this booklet focuses on the woman’s role in the home, nothing we have to say here is meant to excuse men who aren’t performing their God-given role as husbands. In fact, when I presented this material on marriage to the congregation at our church in Dallas, I began by addressing the husbands as those commanded to lead, not the wives.

    Since you don’t have that material in front of you, let me summarize it by saying that the primary responsibility for the health of a marriage falls on the husband, not the wife. It’s true that there are wives who are not fulfilling their biblical role, but that doesn’t change the fact that husbands are charged with the primary responsibility to see that their marriages function as God intended. And the best way they can do this is by taking seriously their role as spiritual leaders.

    I say this so you won’t think that wives are being singled out to bear the primary load of responsibility to make their marriages function as God intended. Many women say they want their husbands to step up to the plate and assume leadership in the home. They long to be relieved of a burden they know they are not designed to carry and would gladly yield if their husbands would come through for them.

    Since we deal with the husband’s responsibilities in detail in For Married Men Only, I want to focus on the wife’s role here. Actually, both spouses’ roles are summarized in Ephesians 5:33: Each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

    A husband is commanded to love his wife, and that is not dependent on his emotions. A wife is commanded to respect her husband even if he hasn’t earned that respect in her mind. But too many Christian women are taking their marriage cues from television or their girlfriends instead of from God’s Word.

    Many women were raised in single-parent homes and in a matriarchal environment over which they had no control. The problem is that they have come to think this is how things are supposed to be. Since mama ran their home, they figure they need to run their home now that they’re married.

    But a woman who tries to take charge of her marriage is trampling on the respect

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