Why Know The Father's Heart by Sylvia Gunter
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I never tire of talking about or receiving the Father heart of God.
We have a crisis of fathering in this country. A hundred years ago Teddy Roosevelt said, "What we need in our public officials is not genius, not even brilliancy, so much as the exercise of the ordinary, rather commonplace qualities of honesty, courage, and common sense -- the qualities that make a man a good husband, a good father, a good neighbor." Our crisis in good fathering is ultimately more serious than any economic or political crisis.
In Ephesians 5:21-32, Christ makes a very strong statement concerning the church as His bride. In this passage, God very carefully intertwines His relationship and the church with the marriage relationship between husband and wife. In fact, the two ideas are so fused together that it is almost impossible to divide them in an exegetical study:
