Not Fifty-Fifty: Why Marriage (and Salvation) Runs on Covenant, Not Contract

Send us Fan Mail Turning to Ephesians 5 and Malachi 2:14, Austin Gardner unpacks the difference between a contract and a covenant and why that distinction changes everything, not just for marriage, but for how we understand our relationship with God. Starting with the often-misused command for wives to submit, he shows how it's rooted in mutual submission (v. 21) and modeled on the order within the Trinity itself (1 Corinthians 11:3), never on control or superiority. From there, the message m...