Patriarchy, Abuse, and the Bible: Responding to Calvary Chapel Pastor

Guest Bios Show Transcript Does Jesus’ command to love our enemies mean Christian women must remain in abusive marriages? That’s the troubling claim Pastor Paul LeBoutillier made in a recent sermon at Calvary Chapel in Boise, Idaho. While acknowledging that abuse is “terrible,” he implied Jesus’ words about loving abusers apply to abusive husbands. Is that a faithful reading of Scripture or a distortion rooted in patriarchy?