I could not have agreed more with today’s breakpoint commentary by Chuck Colson. It was contemproary worldview on wedding and marriage, titled ‘Til death do us part – or whatever. It said:

Tragically, many young couples enter into matrimony with no idea of what marriage is all about. Their “preparation” for marriage, if you can call it that, may consist of living with one person after another, until they find someone who is sexually compatible, or whose career goals don’t conflict with their own. Promises are made with their fingers crossed and a pre-nuptual agreement, just in case things don’t work out—or in the event they find someone they like better.

 What’s responsible for the breakdown of a Christian view of marriage? In a series of articles on courtship and marriage in Boundless, Dr. Leon Kass, University of Chicago, writes that the deepest and most intractable obstacle to courtship and marriage today is “a set of cultural attitudes and sensibilities that obscure and even deny the fundamental difference between youth and adulthood.”

Christians view marriage as a framework for rearing the next generation. This, Kass notes, “is the business of adults, by which I mean, people who are serious about life, people who aspire to go outward and forward to embrace and to assume responsibility for the future.”

That’s precisely why we wrote Before the Wedding Bells. In the current culture many are walking into marriage without knowing what it really is. With an attitude, I am in it as long as I am happy. We need to restore a Christ-centered view on marriage for the greater good of the society, civilization and our common future.