The Christian woman is to wear the gospel garment of submission. Such spiritual clothing will be despised by the world. But the cross is scandalous, foolish, and weak before the world as well (I Corinthians 1:18; 21-25). Let women learn to be fools for Christ’s sake. The problem is not the weakness of salvation, but the weakness of the sinner in seeing the beauty of the cross. In the same vein, the problem is not the weakness of submission. It takes a spiritually strong woman to submit to her husband. The problem is the weakness of the sinner in seeing the beauty of submission.
The Gospel Garment of Submission
When the church stopped preaching that a wife should submit to her husband, it paved the way for the church to stop preaching that it’s wrong to have women preachers. Perhaps if these women preachers so adored by thousands upon thousands of women began submitting to their own husbands, their followers would begin doing so as well. So yes, any so-called woman preacher should “go home”. John MacArthur may have said it, but he was standing on Scripture. Titus 2:5 exhorts all women: “to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”