LOVE AND MARRIAGE (1 OF 6)
Scripture: Genesis 2:18-25
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Love And Marriage (1 of 6)
Family Ties
James Merritt
Genesis 2:18-25
Introduction
1. I want to put a list of some animals (most of which you have never heard of) on the screen and see if you can guess what they have in common.
- Florida panther
- Lesser prairie chicken
- Devil's Hole pup fish
- Bryde's whale
- North Atlantic right whale
- Monarch butterfly
- Delta Smelt
Those are the most endangered species list in America. (1)
2. Let me add two more items to that list that I would put right at the top. They are not animals, but they are institutions. One is marriage and the other is commonly labeled "the traditional family." Os Guiness stated the situation this way,
"The overall crisis of the family needs no exposition. From permissiveness of the hook-up culture to the pill that separates sexual pleasure and procreation, to no-fault divorce, to abortion on demand, to alternative forms of marriage, to assisted suicide, to the collapse of the family dining table, and to all the sex-education materials for students in public schools, all these recent trends have joined forces to undermine the Jewish and Christian view of the family as the bedrock, nurturing and transmitting institution of civilization." (2)
3. As far as marriage, it is increasingly becoming invisible. Seventy years ago, a large majority of U.S. households approximately eighty percent were made up of married couples. That fell to forty-nine percent. U.S. adults ages 18-34 years who were married fell from approximately sixty percent in 1978 and to thirty percent in 2018. (3) The share of Americans getting married has fallen to its lowest level on record. In 2018, the U.S. marriage rate fell six percent with only 6.5 marriages formed for every one thousand people. That was the lowest rate since the Federal Government began keeping data in 1867. (4)
4. What has been the result of all of this? In an article in The Atlantic this was the conclusion,
If you want to sum ...
Family Ties
James Merritt
Genesis 2:18-25
Introduction
1. I want to put a list of some animals (most of which you have never heard of) on the screen and see if you can guess what they have in common.
- Florida panther
- Lesser prairie chicken
- Devil's Hole pup fish
- Bryde's whale
- North Atlantic right whale
- Monarch butterfly
- Delta Smelt
Those are the most endangered species list in America. (1)
2. Let me add two more items to that list that I would put right at the top. They are not animals, but they are institutions. One is marriage and the other is commonly labeled "the traditional family." Os Guiness stated the situation this way,
"The overall crisis of the family needs no exposition. From permissiveness of the hook-up culture to the pill that separates sexual pleasure and procreation, to no-fault divorce, to abortion on demand, to alternative forms of marriage, to assisted suicide, to the collapse of the family dining table, and to all the sex-education materials for students in public schools, all these recent trends have joined forces to undermine the Jewish and Christian view of the family as the bedrock, nurturing and transmitting institution of civilization." (2)
3. As far as marriage, it is increasingly becoming invisible. Seventy years ago, a large majority of U.S. households approximately eighty percent were made up of married couples. That fell to forty-nine percent. U.S. adults ages 18-34 years who were married fell from approximately sixty percent in 1978 and to thirty percent in 2018. (3) The share of Americans getting married has fallen to its lowest level on record. In 2018, the U.S. marriage rate fell six percent with only 6.5 marriages formed for every one thousand people. That was the lowest rate since the Federal Government began keeping data in 1867. (4)
4. What has been the result of all of this? In an article in The Atlantic this was the conclusion,
If you want to sum ...
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