How a husband loves his wife (Eph. 5:25-33)
To this day, I remember a story I read in a magazine that came out when I was a teenager. It was about a well-known pastor who was almost forced to step down from the pastorate (and probably should have) – after many years of public and prosperous ministry – because his wife divorced him. Now she didn’t divorce him because he was sexually unfaithful to her or any other kind of what we would normally consider flagrant, ministry-ending sins. The reason she gave was that he had chosen his ministry over her. Over the years she had been neglected and ignored and unloved. He had poured all his passion into the ministry and left his wife in the shadows. Now, I do not condone the divorce. But the fact of the matter is that this pastor certainly hadn’t loved his wife as Christ loved the church. He had sinned greatly against his wife. The thing that haunts me the most to this day about this tragedy is the way the magazine advertised the story on the front cover. On the cover page was
