Reading : Lesson 17 - Being the Family of God
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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