Christian Marriage
by Earline and Roland Castex
Traditionally people have thought of marriage as a legal contract. Unlike other legal contracts, the marriage contract is based on love. Marriage differs from a legal contract in that it is an open-ended contract, “for better, for worse.” In marriage you make an unconditional promise, not knowing where the promise will lead, what the promise will entail. The unconditional promise is the essence of Christian marriage.
In a Christian marriage we commit ourselves to our lover as well as to Jesus Christ in faith, again not knowing what faith will demand or where faith will lead.
MARRIAGE – A lifelong and faithful union of a man and a woman mutually committed to sharing their life and love together. Marriage is modeled after and strengthened by God’s own love for his people, it’s an intimate partnership in which each person gives the other freedom to grow and which is directed toward bearing fruit.