Below you will find our 6 most recent articles relating to marriage and family from Marriage Australia.
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We need to tend to the health of the church as well as looking to its growth.
We Need To Tend To The Health And Growth Of The Church Often when people talk about their marriage they talk of the number of years of marital bliss. However, even in the church, marriage is not always blissful, it can always be gracious where there is Christ at the centre and we allow Him to lead, trusting in Him and not try to take control ourselves. This would mean that during the times when bliss is
Have we bought into the lie?
Regrettably in many nations the church is a near carbon copy of the world, having departed from God’s divine standards, in areas of co-habitation, fornication, adultery, divorce, abortion, watching “reality TV” shows often with in your face sexuality and the list goes on. Then there is what governments have done through the laws they have enacted saying that which God declares as sin is legal e.g. the taking of life through euthanasia/abortion; marriage no longer defined as being
Why should we in the church minister to marriage/families?
It may sound a silly question but why should we in the church minister to marriage/families ? Researching this question will guide us to establish the right theological foundations and biblical principles upon which to build a transformational marriage/family ministry. The following quotes are taken from “Theology of Family Ministry” was written by Ps Scott Turansky with several other theologians. Which is currently being used by The 4/14 Transform World Family Challenge Team [ Matthew Ling, Dr. PC Matthew,
Rock Solid Foundation for Marriages and Family
Christians who seek to be the salt of the earth and stand against this "worldly societal trends” need to be fully equipped from scripture. knowing that “God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7 It seems that through nearly all forms of media fear is being stirred up, and many opinions are reported sometimes seemingly taking more space in the media than the truth or certainly any good
Marriage & Divorce 2020
On the 24th November the ABS released these figures confirmed what all of us had assumed – the number of marriages plummeted. In fact, down 30.6% to 78,989 for all types legal types of marriage in Australia. The ABS also commented as a “Key Statistic" that the 10th October was the most common wedding – the Saturday nearest to this date has been the trend for some years now. The ABS also reported that the national average % of
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’; …” C. S. Lewis
As we and many have said great strains are being put on the people of the nation and indeed the world. We all from time to time, need to re-evaluate the priorities of life and the way that we do things. We as church/ministry leaders and the teams around us have been no exception to this. Along with these extra strains, we have been contending with an increased attack on the church – on us as followers of Christ,
