Big Question:  Christian, are the realities of your married life being daily refined and recalibrated by the gospel of Jesus Christ?

1. A word to husbands, and those who aspire to become husbands: gospel-centered marriages begin with husbands who love their wives as Christ loved the church in his death: sacrificially and for her good.

    In other words, Christ’s love for the church must be the husband’s marital model

• in its self-sacrifice
• in its goal
• in its self-interest.

2. A word to wives, and those who aspire to become wives: in a gospel-centered marriage, the wife submits herself to her husband as the church submits to Jesus.