[metmom]

It is unfortunate that so few get that. I didn’t get it for many, many years. Love is a verb. It is an action. 1 Corinthians 13 makes that perfectly clear. The reason the divorce rate is just as high among Christians as secular folks is because we are hearers of the word only. The fact that we, and society, only benefits when we actually DO the Word often goes right over Christians’ halos. ;)

Perhaps the problems with Christian marriages is found in this, which interestingly I just posted yesterday.

Is This Popular View of Marriage Completely Unbiblical?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3552274/posts

[dubyagee]

Yup, exactly. When we leave God out of anything it becomes a warped, twisted version of what he intended.

Much of what’s being discussed here is immature men and women trying to come together and build a life based on what they want as individuals. A true Christian marriage is two imperfect people growing together in their faith, working to serve God first and each other second.

It’s all about please self these days. No wonder the whole concept of marriage is questioned by the young these days.