Questions to consider:
1. Read Ephesians 5:22-24. What stands out to you? What sort of questions arise when you read through this passage? What assumptions or emotions arise?
2. This passage arises from the earlier verse (5:21). How does this context affect your understanding of the passage?
3. What stood out to you about the historical context of the Roman household and Paul's decision to address wives, children, and servants directly? Why might that have been revolutionary in the first century?
4. Biblical submission was defined as: "The voluntary choice to use your strength, your gifts, your influence, and your freedom for the good of another out of reverence for Christ." How does that definition differ from how our culture often thinks about submission? Do you agree or disagree?
5. Genisis describes the woman as an ezer ("helper"), a word also used of God throughout the Old Testament. How does that shape our understanding of partnership, strength, and mutual dependence in marriage and relationships?
6. "The most important relationship in a Christian marriage is not the marriage relationship." Do you agree? What does that practically look like to keep Christ at the center of a marriage - or any relationship?
