Supposedly Christian responses to marriage breakdown may have majored too much on trying to help people build and sustain relationships without giving them the outward-looking focus of serving God. In so doing we are buying unwittingly into the spirit of the age; we appear to accept much of the implicity relational primacy of our culture and just try to show our readers how to do it better than the world outside. Instead the whole paradigm needs to be challenged.
C. Ash, Marriage, p. 129
Self-centredness of strong marriages?
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There's a big difference between living to please one's spouse and living to please one's God.
I think the problem is that in many cases our spouse has become an idol and it is their opinion that matters more than that of God. Our relationship with our spouse takes priority over our relationship with God. For example. When we lash out at our spouse in anger, we apologise to her and seek her forgiveness. But our sin against God in the lashing out is largely ignored.
I think it's due to the physical immanence we enjoy with our spouse compared with the apparent lack of immanence we have with God.
I'll need to look this book up. I hope he's easier to read than his Master.
The book is well worth reading and eminently more readable than Oblique O'Donnovan. But equally rewarding.
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