Why Marriage is Tough
I guess a while back an organization called LifeWay Christian Resources conducted a survey and determined a "Top 10 List" of Issues facing families today. An interesting idea I suppose, although I am unclear as to what such a list achieves. But anyways, Andreas Kostenberger has written an interesting critique. He says, essentially, that these top 10 items keep everyone distracted from the root cause of failure in most Christian marriages. What we really need, he says, is for:
"Christian men and women to rediscover the biblical teaching on marriage and the family on a profound, spiritual level, and to commit themselves to live by this teaching in the midst of those other issues."
Interesting idea. Sounds good. Not sure what it means on a practical day-to-day level though.
Also, why does it sometimes feel like we, as Christians, are constantly commiting and re-commiting ourselves to something?
(HT: JT)
"Christian men and women to rediscover the biblical teaching on marriage and the family on a profound, spiritual level, and to commit themselves to live by this teaching in the midst of those other issues."
Interesting idea. Sounds good. Not sure what it means on a practical day-to-day level though.
Also, why does it sometimes feel like we, as Christians, are constantly commiting and re-commiting ourselves to something?
(HT: JT)
posted by Jonathan Ziman at
10:48 AM
3 Comments:
dkyI think there's a reason why we Christians are always recommitting ourselves to things. It's because we kind of understand that we humans forget and are fickle, selfish creatures who need to be reminded of what our priorities are. Kind of like the Children of Israel, who kept forgetting and needed prophets and plagues to shock them back into right standing.
Maybe not everyone is like this, but I know it's certainly my tendency.
I kind of think of my morning prayers as that: a recommitting that this day, I'm going to be God's son and try my hardest to live that way. It's almost like I have to remind myself what I believe and who I am and who God is.
I'm like a helium balloon, and not the mylar kind that float for 6 weeks after you buy them. I'm like the latex kind that are bouncing along the floor of the kitchen in 12 hours.
I need more helium.
It'd be better if I could just not leak. Maybe someday I'll get there.
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David Tieche, at 3:34 PM
By the way, that last blog comment began with the letters "dky" which is not code for something. It was a code that blogger.com made me enter in order to post and somehow it got added to the front of my post accidentally.
But I suppose you could say it means
"Don't Know, Y'all"
or
"Do Kids Yodel?"
or
"Dump Kentucky"
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David Tieche, at 3:36 PM
I have a question for you that does hit on this subject.
What do you think about my new blog entry about Yeshua HaMashiach?
http://777denny.wordpress.com/
Thank you,
777denny
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