Rooted In Christ's Family - Joshua Higgins

Joshua Higgins works through Colossians 3:18 to 4:1, the ancient household code, asking what marriage, parenting and work look like with Christ at the center of them. Most of the lesson stays on the first pair, noting that Paul tells wives to submit but never, as he does children and servants, to obey, and setting Paul's view of men and women in Genesis 1 against Aristotle's claim that the female is by nature inferior. The paragraph on slaves and masters is read alongside Philemon, where a runaway is sent home as a brother.