Marriage!

Nope, not engaged or anything, but oh man have I been thinking a LOT about marriage the past few days! Our college group recently had a retreat and we went over What He Must Be by Voddie Baucham.

Here are some thoughts:

• If you do not love the church, you do not love Christ!

• Christians should love and value the institution of marriage because Christ loved and valued the institution of marriage.

• Christ was all about the church. He died for the church to be saved and raised with Him in glory! He is the Bridegroom and the church is his Bride. Marriage.
  

• Therefore, as marriage is a shadow of this very gospel (what Christ did for the church) (Ephesians 5) we should value the institution of marriage, praise the institution of marriage & raise our children up to do the same. However, by no means do I mean to hint that Christians should idolize marriage.

• We should love the church because Christ does. You can't love one without the other.