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The Man In Love
The meeting then adopted The Real Family as the theme for the 2017 Family Life Convention with conviction that love, empowered by the Spirit of God is at the core of building such a family. Sub-themes were subsequently considered through which the different dimensions of love within the family must be developed, inculcated and sustained. At that meeting, I was inspired to propose THE MAN IN LOVE as the sub-theme that addresses the responsibility of men within the context of the Real Family with Ephesians 5:25-28 as the anchor scripture.
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, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:25-28
Although the push of the Spirit toward this area for the men was so strong, I can say that with the benefit of hindsight, I did not understand the seriousness of the matter and especially its need for the body of Christ at the time the suggestion was put forward for the sub-theme. Over the next couple of days after that
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