Leadership necessarily involves initiative. Many men have blurred the (admittedly fine) distinction between being the head of the home and being a queen bee. A slug on the sofa may be waited on, but he is not exercising godly leadership. In Ephesians 5:25, and 6:4, the verbs love and bring up are active verbs. In the home, the husband is a picture of Christ. But if he shows no initiative in loving, teaching, or admonishing, he is a lying picture of Christ. In other words, each husband,
