{"id":37138,"date":"2022-09-13T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-does-scripture-say-about-the-leadership-of-man-in-the-family\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:25:49","slug":"what-does-scripture-say-about-the-leadership-of-man-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-does-scripture-say-about-the-leadership-of-man-in-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"What does scripture say about the leadership of man in the family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Scriptures show the position of a man is the head of the family.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.&rdquo;&nbsp; Ephesians 5:23<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.&rdquo;&nbsp; Ephesians 6:1<\/p>\n<p>From this position as head of the family, a husband must <strong>lead his family by example<\/strong> just as Jesus leads us by his example.&nbsp; Husbands and fathers must be <strong>examples of love and increasing in the fruits of the spirit<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The point of leadership in the family is<strong> not to rule<\/strong> over the rest of the family but to <strong>lay down our life in love and service<\/strong> for our family as Christ laid it down for the church and all of mankind.&nbsp; We are to try to always be examples of love to our wives and children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bible warns us about being too strict or harsh in ruling over our family.&nbsp; &ldquo;Husbands love your wives, <strong>do not be harsh with them<\/strong>.&rdquo; (Colossians 3:19) and &ldquo;Fathers, <strong>do not provoke your children to anger<\/strong>, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.&rdquo; (Ephesians 6:4)<\/p>\n<p>Husbands and fathers have such a <strong>great responsibility put on them<\/strong> &ndash; to be examples of Jesus Christ.&nbsp; Their position of leadership in the family is to lead the family by example in developing a Christian character pleasing and acceptable to God.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scriptures show the position of a man is the head of the family. &ldquo;For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.&rdquo;&nbsp; Ephesians 5:23 &ldquo;Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.&rdquo;&nbsp; Ephesians 6:1 From this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-does-scripture-say-about-the-leadership-of-man-in-the-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What does scripture say about the leadership of man in the family?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}