Discipleship & Our Sexual Formation: Marriage || James Rankine

Vineyard Church Cardiff

Sunday 5th May, 2024 - West & North Sites Sunday 12th May, 2024 - Central Site AM & PM Speaker - James Rankine James continues with Part 5 of our series called Live Like Jesus: Discipleship and Our Sexual Formation, concentrating on God's design for marriage. --------------------- EMAIL: [e-mail] All emails to this address will be treated confidentially. You are welcome to simply email and ask for someone to get in touch with you - there is no pressure to share more information than you feel comfortable ---------------------

Ephesians 5:21-31

Instructions for Christian Households

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Saviour. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to Himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of His body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” ------- Recorded at West Site - 05May2024