October, 24 2021
“A text without a context is a pretext.” In other words, if you try to take the Word of God completely out of the culture in which it was written, you’re not telling the whole truth. This should be drilled into every student of the Bible, which means every follower of Jesus. The great temptation is to use the Bible to back up the point we want to make or reading it through western eyes instead of seeing how radical this word truly is. This has often been the case with Paul’s teaching on marriage. On Sunday we’ll dig a little deeper into this and not only will there be benefit for those who are married, there will be benefit for those who are single and wanting to understand relationship dynamics a little better. Our text is Ephesians 5.22-33 and “The Great Marriage Debate.”