Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Colossians 3:12-24
by: Jerry Johnson.
The Christian home is no better than the sum of its individual parts. Verses twelve through seventeen provide guidance for character and its application, the out-flowing of love and joy. One of the best seminars on this tension between the wife’s call to submission and the husband’s call to sacrificial love is Emerson Eggerich’s Love and Respect. Most of us fall into the “Crazy Cycle,” where either love, respect or both are lacking. Husbands and wives need to be aware of how these needs complement one another. Paul also implies that the husband who does not love his wife also discourages and provokes his children.