By focusing exclusively on evangelism, discipleship, and church planting, we are ignoring some of the weightier matters of the Bible. We have young people who want to get married and who can't seem to find someone to marry. Divorce rates are nearly as high in churches as in our unchurched neighbors. We seem to have forgotten that single people and married couples need a lot of help and support to survive in this messed up world we live in.
Like Jesus said, we need to not stop doing one thing to do another. But we need to spend more time encouraging and supporting and ministering to people who want to get married and who want to start families.
We have young men who only want to get married because single guys don't get sent out. We have single girls who think a degree and a career is more important than a family of their own. Something is wrong, and we as a Fellowship seem to have forgotten how important marriage and family is.
Marriage was instituted in the Garden of Eden before the fall. Marriage in every aspect is pure and holy and beneficial. Sin has ruined sex and marriage for a generation of church kids.
Young men need help to learn how to win a wife and to win a career and to accomplish something in life. If that means being a pastor then do it. If that means being a doctor then do it. If that means being a tradesman then do it.
Baby boomers are the most selfish and self centered generation I have had the misfortune of being a part of.
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