How should the husband-wife relationship be equated to the Lord and the church?
The husband is to relate to his wife as the Lord relates to the church, and the wife is to relate to her husband as the church or body of Christ relates to the Lord. Wives submit as unto the Lord; Christlike headship is loving, not oppressive, and husbands should live totally for their wives' benefit.
Les explains that God has mandated the husband-wife relationship with the husband as head of the wife, but this does not mean the wife is his gopher or slave girl, nor that he can lord over her. The relationship is equated this way: as the Lord is to the church, so the husband is to the wife, and as the church or body of Christ is to the Lord, so the wife is to the husband. Verse 22 says wives submit unto their own husbands as unto the Lord, and verse 23 says the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church. Les asks whether it is uncomfortable or miserable to be in the body of Christ with Christ as the head, and answers no, because He has only the purest love and gives the best, coming that we might have life more abundantly. That is exactly how the husband-wife relationship should be; the husband should live totally to the benefit of his wife.