Counter-Culture Marriage (Part 2); 1Pet. 3:1-7

Delivered during the Sunday evening worship service, 01/19/2020. In this second 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. After a short review of the wife's responsibility in a Christian marriage, we will focus on the husband-- encouraging men to be all they were made to be "in Christ". Ultimately we will bring the two together and find that the curse of the Fall still plagues modern marriages and can only be solved by turning to Christ in a decidedly counter-cultural but very biblical marriage.