Is There a Crisis of Marriage in the Church?

Emerson: I struggle sometimes with why pastors shrink back at this passage or why women rise up against it. The question on the table is, do I really believe Abba's there and that he has spoken? We have to ask ourselves, do we believe in a revelatory worldview? And if I do, then the incentive is an honorable man. This becomes deeply motivating from Jesus Christ standing on the shoulder of my wife," says Emerson. "We are not easy here."