The Christian Marriage
So the Christian man and wife have a wonderful opportunity to share their adult lives with each other. There will be challenges in the relationship. But if you never had a challenge, there wouldn’t be anything exciting about a relationship. It’s the challenges with which you are confronted and subsequently work out that make a marriage gratifying and that build depth in it. I don’t know if two people, a man and wife, ever see eye to eye on everything. But I do believe that two people can so work things out that they can overcome any challenge. But, most basic of all, the marriage has to be built on God’s Word. It is the Christian family which gives the greatest positive wholeness of life—the companionship and joy and peace and happiness which God intended when He set up the original pattern for man and woman as told to us in the first chapters of Genesis.
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to work, living the greatness of God in their lives. All I need to hear to make my skin crawl is for a believing woman to tell me that she is “just a housewife.” When I hear that, I’m bothered. Just a housewife?! That’s a disgrace. No woman of God is just a housewife. That kind of teaching in our country has pulled out from underneath us some of our very roots. That women think they’re slaves just because they have to wash the dishes or clean the floors or keep the house in order. I should say not. You’re wonderful women of God and you’ve got a tremendous opportunity. You’re not “just a housewife.” You’re a Woman of God with a ministry, a mission, a purpose in life. Look at Genesis 2:18. Did the Lord God say, “It’s real good for man to be alone’’? He said, “It is not good that the man should he alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” A help meet, or helpmate, is a companion. The wo