“And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27
“But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11:3
“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the
church and gave himself up for her,… However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” Ephesians 5:22-33
We honor and support the distinct abilities and responsibilities God has assigned to each person as a genetic male or a genetic female made in His image. Though women and men are equal in value and dignity before God, they are different from one another in terms of their relative needs for love and respect and they are mutually supportive and beneficial to one another in terms of their relative functions within the family and within the church. We define marriage as the union of one man and one woman by sacred vow for life.
Reform #13 — “Complimentarian In Gender Roles”