Being the family of God

 

Shared vocation: bearing witness to God’s kingdom

 

Hospitable households: breaking down the nuclear family (1 Cor. 7:29)

 

Everyday patterns of life

 

Marriage & celibacy

 

When should someone consider marriage?

 

Present state: “If they are not exercising self-control…” (v.9)

 

Better and worse:

•       “Better to marry than to burn with passion.”

•       Better to burn than to sin.

 

Solution: not sex but marriage.

•       Remember: Jesus’ teaching on marriage

 

Marriage & Celibacy

 

Both participate in the spousal meaning of the body

 

When sexuality is devalued, both are devalued

 

Both mutually interpret one another


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