Christ’s Submission, a Model for Marriage?

Rev. McGeown addresses the theological debate over whether Christ's submission to the Father can serve as a model for wifely submission in marriage, while critiquing Wayne Grudem's use of Eternal Functional Subordination (EFS) to support this analogy. The article defends the complementarian understanding of marriage—affirming both the spiritual equality of spouses and the authority structure God designed—by grounding it in Trinitarian theology and the mystery of Christ's relationship to the church rather than in eternal subordination of the Son.