Today's Sermon
"God's Glorious Design"

Pastor Tim Trudeau

I. God Created Us Male and Female- Genesis 1:27

II. God Created Men and Women with Absolute Equality- Genesis 1:27

III. This Equality Extends to Our Role in God’s Grand Purposes for His
People- Genesis 1:26-28

IV. This Equality Extends to God’s Gifting of His People- Acts 2:17-18

V. Equality Does Not Mean Uniformity- I Corinthians 11:2-3

VI. Role Distinctions Exist in Marriage, and Display the Glory of Christ in His
Relationship to the Church- Ephesians 5:21-33

VII. Role Distinctions Manifest Themselves in Two Practical Ways-
Colossians 3:18-19

A. Wives Submit

B. Husbands Be Gentle

“Both men and women get to “play the Jesus role” in marriage- Jesus in
His sacrificial authority, Jesus in His sacrificial submission. By accepting our
gender roles, and operating within them, we are able to demonstrate to
the world concepts that are so counterintuitive as to be completely
unintelligible unless they are lived out by men and women in Christian
marriages.”
-Tim & Kathy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage, 179