by hisks from www.sxc.hu
Here are some things we are doing in the church today to save marriage.
- Marriage sermons
- Marriage classes
- Marriage seminars
- Marriage counseling
- Marriage mentoring
- Marriage small-gropus
- Pre-martial counseling
- Marriage books
- Marriage retreats
We have tremendous resources available now to save marriage and build families. There are great books that you can find to teach you how to have a good marriage. There are wonderful sermons and workshops you can attend and listen to that will equip you for having a good marriage. There are trained Christian counselors who are able to save marriages when people listen to their advice.
But are any of these going to be our solution at turning back the marriage crisis we face in our country? They are all a part of the solution. I am thankful for each of them and participate in many of them. But I believe the one primary way that we are going to change the future of marriage, and strengthen the American family, is by displaying Christ-like marriages to the world.
Marriage is intended to be a lived out analogy of the love Christ has for the church and the church for Christ. It is intended to be a witness and example to the world. Every Christian couple, that loves each other sacrificially putting the other above themselves, is powerful weapon in the battle to save marriage. The next generation is changed because they grow up in a home seeing a Christ-like marriage. Friends of the couple are inspired to have a better marriage because they see a Christ-like marriage. Worldly neighbors see their home and desire to have what they have in their marriage because they see a Christ-like marriage.
Sermons, books, and seminars are important, but the way we are going to save marriage and the American family is through Christian couples having a Christ-like marriage!
This is why each of us who are married must first examine our own marriage and the example we are giving to our children, fellow Christians, and the world. You may be the only marriage book or sermon that your friends and kids ever truly listen to about marriage!
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Ephesians 5:22-33
