“Marriage is for our holiness before our happiness. Your spouse is the most sanctifying, and
often most frustrating, relationship you will have. God will use our spouses to
expose our selfishness and make us to be increasingly more humble servants like
Jesus Christ”. These are the words of
Mark and Grace Driscoll that resonated with both my husband and I.
The book was interesting, some of the content, I agreed
with, some of it not. A well written,
honest account of their own marriage issues and many issues that other people
had brought to them throughout their ministry, Mark and Grace have sought to
provide insight to God’s purpose for our marriages and to banish much of the wrong
thought surrounding issues, from everyday attitudes and intimacy issues between
couples. They don’t mince their words
and it is a very real look at marriages today.
Issues such as the effect of pornography on the psyche of both men and
woman, I found to be of great interest.
One of the biggest issues for me, as a woman, has always been that of
understanding submission in the biblical sense and the Christian world is abuzz
with everybody’s opinion on this very issue – Mark and Grace’s take, I believe
is grounded in scripture. The book
challenges many of my preconceived ideas about sex but in this, it’s not to say
that I have chosen to agree with every thing delivered in the content, it is however most refreshing
to read a book on these issues that provides a great deal of food for
thought. Challenging!
