2. Tim Keller
“Marriage is God’s idea. It is certainly also
a human institution, & reflects the character
of the particular human culture in which it is
embedded. But the concept & roots of human
marriage are in God’s own action, & therefore
what the Bible says about God’s design
for marriage is crucial.”
3. Tim Keller
“What God institutes,
He also regulates.
If God invented marriage,
then those who enter it
should make every effort
to understand & submit
to His purposes for it…”
4. Ephesians 5:31-32
“Therefore a man shall leave his father
& mother & hold fast to his wife,
& the two shall become one flesh.”
This mystery is profound, & I am
saying that it refers to
Christ & the church.
9. Common Assumptions
Leading to Cohabitation
- Most married people are unhappy
- It helps to discern “compatibility”
- It helps to see if there’s any “chemistry”
10. Common Assumptions
Leading to Cohabitation
- Most married people are unhappy
- It helps to discern “compatibility”
- It helps to see if there’s any “chemistry”
In reality, all of these
assumptions are misguided..
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13. C.S. Lewis
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything & your heart will be wrung
& possibly broken. If you want to make sure
of keeping it intact you must give it to no one,
not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round
with hobbies & little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements...”
14. C.S. Lewis
“Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin
of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe,
dark, motionless, airless, it will change.
It will not be broken;
it will become unbreakable,
impenetrable, irredeemable.”
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16. Ruth 1:16-17
Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back
from you. Where you go I will go, & where
you stay I will stay. Your people will
be my people and your God my God.
Where you die I will die, & there I will
be buried. May the Lord deal with me,
be it ever so severely, if even death
separates you & me.
