Marriage Missional

What is marriage? What does it mean? What is it for? Our society has asked these questions and, as a result, we find the institution of marriage destroyed with homosexual relationships, pre-marital "love", and a trend of couples living together. It seems our society has found that the traditional reasons for marriage, such as to populate the earth and love, not enough reason to uphold it as foundational to human society.
We Christians cannot be like this nor can we imitate it. We know from whence marriage comes, and this would be the greatest defense of heterosexual marriage against homosexual relationships. Simply, God made it and God defines it as between a man and a woman. This institute of marriage we see from Adam and Eve to the New Testament Church. Now we know what marriage is and where it came from, let us look into what it means and what it is for.
Too often we, like the world, confuse matrimony as the "happily ever after" end of a labyrinth of love. From the Christian perspective, this is not so. Look at how the world defines love; a feeling of strong emotion for someone. And look how Christ has defined love; on a Cross. Does it not stand to reason that, as the world has misshaped our perspective on love, can it not also have misshaped our view of marriage, so closely related? Indeed it has.Marriage is just this, a symbol of the love of Christ for His Church. We, as men, must reflect the same passionate love Christ had for His bride. Look at what He has done, even unto death. Do this! You must humble yourselves! Bring yourselves low and know that you are servants just like Christ came to serve. Your marriages are a picture of the salvation of Christ and they proclaim Him. This leaves no room for divorce, pride, or selfishness! This means that your marriage is not about you, yay, it is about the Christ Jesus. Your marriage is a gospel track! Go and proclaim Jesus in your matrimonial love! God be praised!

Soli Deo Gloria