For Married Men Only: Three Principles for Loving Your Wife

What does it mean for a husband to love his wife? Three things, says Tony Evans: a husband must act as his wife’s savior, sanctifier, and satisfier. It is by living out these three principles that a godly marriage will blossom and flourish.

In For Married Men Only, each of these principles is explored and explained using real-life examples. How can a husband be his wife’s savior? By learning to love her as Christ loved the church. What about sanctifier? By dying to self and modeling sacrificial love, no matter what the result. And satisfier? By studying and serving his wife so he can fulfill her needs, just as Christ humbled Himself for our sakes.

First published in 2002 as Tony Evans Speaks Out on a Man’s Role in the Home, this booklet has sold nearly 40,000 copies. Use it alone or with the companion volume, For Married Women Only.

What does it mean for a husband to love his wife?

Tony Evans clarifies this issue by highlighting three practical ways a husband can fulfill his role as a lover by becoming his wife's:
1. Savior
2.Sanctifier
3. Satisfier

So before you think about throwing in the towel on your marriage, begin nourishing and cherishing your wife and watch what happens. You have a Provider in heaven who will minister grace to you where grace is needed.

TONY EVANS is senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, and president of The Urban Alternative, a ministry devoted to promoting a clear understanding and relevant application of Scripture in order to bring about change in urban communities through the church.  He is author of many books, including The Battle is the Lord's, Our God is Awesome, Returning to Your First Love, The Promise, Who is This King of Glory?, What Matters Most, and The Best is Yet to Come.