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Passionate Love is a must read for all couples who desire to create and maintain a lasting love and passion filled marriage. In Passionate Love, Pastor George Mwansa outlines how husbands ought to love their wives by systematically drawing lessons from Christ's love for the church. He also gives wives guidelines on how to submit to their husbands – God's way.


Passionate Love is a must read for all couples who desire to create and maintain a lasting love and passion filled marriage. In Passionate Love, Pastor George Mwansa outlines how husbands ought to love their wives by systematically drawing lessons from Christ's love for the church. He also gives wives guidelines on how to submit to their husbands – God's way.

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Chapter<br />

99<br />

A LOOK<br />

AT SUBMISSION<br />

“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord” [Ephesians 5:22].<br />

I was at Helderberg College when news reached me about a “new<br />

addition” to the family. “Your wife has given birth to a baby girl,” said the<br />

herald. I was excited! At long last I would be called by my child's name:<br />

“Bashi Mwape [Mwape's father—her name is Mwape]. It's a good feeling<br />

for every normal father to feel that way. As I contemplated my new status,<br />

suddenly something hit me. The baby was a girl. Yes I was delighted to<br />

have a child, but I couldn't help but feel sorry for her. I thought about<br />

what this “brand new” person would have to endure in this life as a female<br />

some day. Life as a girl, a woman and maybe wife would not be easy for<br />

her. You see, life for women, generally in this planet filled with sin, is not<br />

easy. Women in this life generally are subjected to raw deals.<br />

The subject of submission [as it relates to wives submitting to their<br />

husbands] is one of the most misunderstood teachings of the Bible.<br />

Some “Christian” husbands have not only misinterpreted this text but<br />

misapplied it and caused untold miseries to their wives. Perhaps it is this

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