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Introduction

These commentaries are the result of my personal experience and study. They reflect my perspective on Christian doctrine—the narrative that shapes a believer’s faith—and how that narrative influences our ability to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Today, Christianity often seems disconnected from the broader cultural conversation—reduced, in many ways, to an inconvenient subculture that increasingly grapples with spiritual diversity and social identity. This growing irrelevance raises a pressing question: why has the Church drifted so far from meaningful engagement with society? What concerns me most is how rarely this issue is addressed. Leadership from the pulpit is more focused on the organisation of the institution itself—an oversight that, in my view, has a direct and damaging effect on the health of the Church.

About Me

My earliest experiences were shaped, but not led, by a Christian view of life—a position that continued for 40 years before I made a personal decision to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. In 2001, I was part of a leadership team that welcomed a new Pastor to our Church. Not long after, we were confronted with a series of theological and relational challenges that ultimately split the congregation in two. It took three subsequent Pastors and many years for the Church to heal from this division. I still recall the sadness, anger, and disillusionment that followed—the sense of confusion—the lingering weight of unanswered questions. Through that experience, I realised two things—that I knew very little about why I believed; and second, that whatever I did know wasn’t truly my own.

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Negotiating a Christian Marriage - Part 5: Headship

Part 5 of this series will, unfortunately, be wordier than the previous, but when considering other commentaries, it’s relatively straight forward. Many commentators have expressed their views about the meaning of the word “head” (Eph 5:23), and while all contain aspects I agree with, I do question the motives of some, and the rigidity of others. Most don’t relate the commentary to core issues facing marriage today. The debate itself becomes the core issue. With all due respect to various theologies and commentaries, they’re educated opinions that often disagree with each other. Even this view won’t find total agreement, but we might agree on one thing, that the success of a marriage is based on love and respect, and it’s difficult to sustain either without some appreciation of what it means to relax our own desires for the sake of a spouse. In my experience, the reading of in-depth commentaries, or waxing lyrical the words of a gifted speaker, won't reconcile a broken marriage! It might help in providing information, but equally, it could corrupt an already distorted opinion. The effective communication of love and respect by husbands and wives is reflected in the response it produces in the other, and those who hold rigid theological opinions about who has authority in a marriage, while their own marriage is crumbling around them, might consider the “source” of their opinion.

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