Covenant

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Channing and Jenna and most of our culture see marriage as a contract: an agreement that will last as long as both of us are very happy.

The Christian view of marriage is more of a covenant. We acquire a status, rather than provide a service. We pledge ourselves for life (barring abuse). The terms are defined by God, expressed in the moral law, and based on human nature as God created it.

"This whole-person commitment is what we lose when we re-define all relationships as contracts. Our relationships become thin, fragile, self-interested, and easily broken."