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Egalitarian vs. Complementarian

It's a strange thing to admit, but when I got married 10 years ago, I was what you would call an evangelical feminist.  I believed men and women were equal and I hadn't given much thought to the scriptures that said wives were to submit to their husbands.   Then I got married.  My husband told me later that he knew there were some things that needed to work themselves out in how I viewed marriage.  Only a few months into our marriage, the Lord began convicting me about submission.  I had to learn what it meant.   Galatians 5:22-24 NIV 22   Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.   23   For the husband is the h ead of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.   24   Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Over the next few years, I often pondered, prayed, and read what the Bible says about marriage and a...