Should A Wife Follow A Husband Who Is Not Spiritually Leading The Home?

Q & A on the blog today…

Dear Jolene,

A friend of mine has a husband who attends church with her but he is emotionally abusive and he’s an alcoholic. They attend a church that is opening a second campus that the wife wants to start attending. Her husband is refusing to attend the same church (just a different location). He has not been remotely a spiritual leader. So, is she wrong to ignore him and go to the new campus without his “approval”? And am I wrong to encourage that?

~a concerned friend

So, what’s a wife to do in this situation? Inquiring minds want to know!

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Scripture references:

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Ephesians 5:22

For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word. Ephesians 5:22-26

Submitting to one another in the fear of God. Ephesians 5:21

In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over by observing your pure and reverent lives.

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