SUBMISSION & SUFFERING (3 OF 5)
Scripture: 1 Peter 3:1-22
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Title: Submission & Suffering (3 of 5)
Series: Living with Hope & Holiness in a Hostile World
Text: 1 Peter 3: 1-22
I - The Instruction of Honoring (1 - 7)
II - The Expectation of Loving (8 - 12)
III - The Glorification of Enduring (13 - 22)
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Jill Briscoe on Submission
Jill Briscoe talks about the difference between her family and her husband, Stuart's family and what that brought to their own marriage. She says, "My father, a quiet, gentle man, considered himself head of his home: protector, defender, and provider. My mom was a sweet, Scottish-born Presbyterian.
She believed in the sovereignty of God and her husband. My father adored my mother, put his considerable business assets into her name, and looked to her to raise the children. When my sister came of age, my father supported her when she became an excellent car mechanic and raced cars. Eventually she took her place at his side as partner in his successful car business.
"Stuart's family was strict, conservative evangelical. His father was an elder in a small local assembly of believers, and he took seriously his responsibility to rule the household well. He considered himself the authority in his family, while his wife, a bright, articulate, efficient lady, considered herself in subjection to her husband in everything, carrying those convictions to her dress, her hair style, and silence in the presence of men at the church.
"Newly converted at a college in Cambridge and having just been introduced to Stuart's family," Jill says, "I remember wondering greatly about this amazing mode of doing things. I sensed an unconscious frustration of unexplored desires and frustrated gifts in my mother-in-law. It was as if those gifts sat meekly inside her heart with eyes downcast and wearing a hat.
"In that moment as a new believer," Jill says, "I believe I stumbled on an important truth of what submission isn't. ...
Series: Living with Hope & Holiness in a Hostile World
Text: 1 Peter 3: 1-22
I - The Instruction of Honoring (1 - 7)
II - The Expectation of Loving (8 - 12)
III - The Glorification of Enduring (13 - 22)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Jill Briscoe on Submission
Jill Briscoe talks about the difference between her family and her husband, Stuart's family and what that brought to their own marriage. She says, "My father, a quiet, gentle man, considered himself head of his home: protector, defender, and provider. My mom was a sweet, Scottish-born Presbyterian.
She believed in the sovereignty of God and her husband. My father adored my mother, put his considerable business assets into her name, and looked to her to raise the children. When my sister came of age, my father supported her when she became an excellent car mechanic and raced cars. Eventually she took her place at his side as partner in his successful car business.
"Stuart's family was strict, conservative evangelical. His father was an elder in a small local assembly of believers, and he took seriously his responsibility to rule the household well. He considered himself the authority in his family, while his wife, a bright, articulate, efficient lady, considered herself in subjection to her husband in everything, carrying those convictions to her dress, her hair style, and silence in the presence of men at the church.
"Newly converted at a college in Cambridge and having just been introduced to Stuart's family," Jill says, "I remember wondering greatly about this amazing mode of doing things. I sensed an unconscious frustration of unexplored desires and frustrated gifts in my mother-in-law. It was as if those gifts sat meekly inside her heart with eyes downcast and wearing a hat.
"In that moment as a new believer," Jill says, "I believe I stumbled on an important truth of what submission isn't. ...
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