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Headship is not rulership; it is leadership. As head, the man is to provide spiritual leadership and direction to the family. He is supposed to chart the course. His spiritual temperature should set the climate for his entire house.
— Myles Munroe
Ahi son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their family.
— 1 Chronicles 5:15
A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
— 1 Corinthians 11:7
And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
— Ephesians 1:22
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
— Ephesians 4:15
A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.
— Tony Evans
In every case, the road into unity is not the road of doctrinal disputation and discussion; it is the acknowledging of the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory, in His authority, in His headship and in every aspect of His ministry. As we acknowledge Christ in all that He is to the Church, we are brought into the unity of the faith.
— Derek Prince
Speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ. Ephesians 4:15
— Beth Moore
According to the first-century use of the word, an ekklesia is a local gathering of Christians who live as a shared-life community and who gather regularly under the Headship of Jesus Christ.
— Frank Viola
Man is the head of a woman in exactly the same way that Christ is the head of the Church.' Ephesians Chapter 5, Verse 23. The husband is to sacrifice himself for the wife. He was the head by dying, sacrificing Himself and pouring put His blood. The headship is based on self-forgetfulness for the sake of the beloved.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
— John Piper
Biblical headship for the husband is the divine calling to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant-leadership, protection and provision in the home. Biblical submission for the wife is the divine calling to honor and affirm her husband's leadership and help carry it through accroding to her gifts.
— John Piper