Christian Economics

While listening to the radio recently, I heard someone say, in regard to marriage, "It's a matter of spirituality; it's a matter of culture; it's not a matter of functionality." Marriage has always been regarded as one of the essential and central institutions in our culture. Has it now become (or will it soon be) an unnecessary, purely personal decision? Will it be fine to have intimate relationships, establish a household, be seen in society as a couple, and raise children without the commitment of marriage? I hope we can all think about what marriage means to us, and how we can maintain a witness, both within the church, and to the broader culture, that it matters, and that we should not form transient love relationships at our own desire and convenience, but the binding commitment before our friends and God that we call marriage.

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