I read a really great book recently. The kind that lingers in your mind and makes you ask questions of your opinions for weeks on end after…
Lauren Winner wrote this great memoir a few years back on her journey, Girl Meets God. I found it to be witty, intelligent and deeply moving. The book I’m referring to in this post, however, was her second (I believe) – Real Sex.
I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Lauren writes with scathing honesty about sex, the church, and chastity. It’s less “don’t do it” and more “here’s how it forms you…”
I’m curious as to what my married friends, and my single ones, think of the quote below…
“Marriage consists not simply or even primarily of a personal relationship. Rather, it crystallises the love of the larger church community. The couple is not just two-in-one, but two together within the whole, with specific responsibility for the whole… They must persevere in love, because the community needs to see God’s love actualised among God’s people.”
(Julie Hanlon Rubio)
We tend to view marriage as about us and our partner…
What’s our responsibility to the church community then?
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