Counter-Culture Marriage (Part 1); 1Pet. 3:1-7

Delivered during the Sunday evening worship service, 01/05/2020. In this first part of a two part mini-series on biblical marriage: Peter continues to teach his readers the principles of Biblical authority, and passes from an opening discussion of citizens, countries, slaves and masters to the ever-popular and highly controversial subject of wives and husbands. As we make our way through this text, we will make no effort to syncretize the message to the sensitivities of our culture, but will seek the solid Biblical teaching concerning headship and submission that Peter so clearly expounds. In this part of the series, we will focus on the wife's responsibility and search to understand the true meaning of "submission". Ultimately, we will find in Peter's teaching, the Christian solution to the contention between the sexes, and affirm that marital happiness is to be found in a decidedly counter-cultural but very biblical marriage.