Marriage Is for Holiness, Not Just Happiness
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Marriage provides a daily context for spiritual growth because it gives us opportunities to put away sinful tendencies and practice more virtuous behaviors. The Roman lyric poet Horace wrote, "To flee vice is the beginning of virtue." Every action we take has a consequence for our character. Our actions become habits and habits, like grooves on a well-worn path, become our character.
Paul Scott is a registered therapist specializing in drug, alcohol, and sexual addition. Prior to this role, he served in leadership for Every Man's Battle for 13 years. Dr. Halee Gray Scott is an author, independent scholar, and researcher. She is currently writing a book to help Christian women leaders thrive in ministry. The Scotts live in Holland, Michigan, with their two daughters, Ellie and Viv.
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Edward Mills
I am a 79 yo male whose life has been church centered since the 4th grade. For the past 20 years or so I have sat in church stunned by its irrelevancy to modern culture. Church is valuable as a social institution and for its yourth programs. I am also stunned by the enormous chasm between what one hears from the pulpit and what one reads in the Christian advice literature. The pulpit addresses a 1st century congregation while advice literature speaks to the here and now. I have been touting the book, "Love and Will" (1969) which provides meaning and structure to all the adice literature and shows the way to bring Christianity into the 21st century. Its central theme is that we grow through our relationships and marriage is simply the most important social relationship. Sex is the bridge binding H & W. The behavioural sciences today verify the thesis of the book. God created us as social beings and the church must stress the importance of relationships to "godliness."
Xiomara Bueno
Really well written article!!! It blessed my life. Thank you
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