A beautiful, tender, thriving, Ephesians 5-kind of marriage makes the gospel visible on earth, bringing hope to people who have given up believing there could be any love anywhere for them.
That is why biblical marriage deserves our courageous loyalty today.
And that is why, in our increasingly secular times, biblical marriage is under pressure.
Its true meaning is understood and embodied and sustained only by the power of the gospel.
We can’t turn the clock back to the days of the Christian social consensus the West has foolishly thrown away.
But we who say we believe the gospel can and must stand up for the biblical definition of marriage.
We must cultivate beautiful marriages ourselves.
We must suffer social rejection bravely.
We must pray for revival.
We must wait for the inevitable collapse of every false view of marriage.
We must lovingly serve all who suffer for their foolish attempts at false “marriages.”
And we must go to church this Sunday and worship the living God with all our hearts, so that we ourselves are sustained for faithfulness over the long haul, because this isn’t going to be easy.
Read the whole thing as Ray looks at what Genesis teaches about biblical marriage.
