figure set forth as a model for submissiveness (Sarah) expressed her submission in obedience: “Thus Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord” (1 Pet 3:6). Thus in explaining what submission means, Grudem declares that it involves obedience like Sarah’s (“Wives,” 197). This obedience will always be qualified, of course, by the things mentioned in the section on what wifely obedience is not. Also, a truly sensitive and loving husband will not use his headship and authority as a platform for “issuing