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Marry Well
Sun 5/4
By: Matthew Kruse
1943 years separate Massachusetts and Ephesus, but both cultures share at least one thing in common: a super low view of marriage. For the Ephesians, an over-realized eschatology meant dismissing marriage as obsolete. For Bostonians, spiraling divorce rates and confusion about gender threaten to remove the biblical vision of marriage from our cultural consciousness altogether. In both cases, Jesus’ church suffers terribly because of the collapse of the home. Paul sees marriage as something God-ordained and glorious. He had already written to these Ephesians about marriage once before, announcing to them the stunning Gospel realities that are displayed in the relationship of husband and wife. He now calls upon Timothy to silence those who would disparage marriage and to encourage both men and women to take it seriously so that the covenant promises of God can be known today and passed on tomorrow.
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