The Ministry of Marriage in Cultural Wasteland

As I read chapter 2 and 3, I have to admit, my heart sang! I knew that I had bought the lie the culture fed me as a teen about children being a curse, not a blessing, and by the grace of God, the lie was exposed to replace it with the truth of the blessing and heritage of children to Karlie and Blake. Even though the culture tried to lie to me about marriage, I had real life experience of marrying young on my side. While it was warped with the childless selfish years, it still was a blessing that people couldn't convince me otherwise. It's where the Lord grew me up. For years I have encouraged Karlie and Blake to look to marry young and for some time now have even been saying, marry young (of course, according to the Word) and fill your quivers with blessings! How exciting to be able to watch the Lord raise up a generation of children imbued with truth! After watching a TV series about a Christian family raising 18 children of their own, Blake told me the other day that he'd like to maybe not have that many, but that 10 sounded like a good size. Ten?! Wow, what the Lord is doing! I am so thankful for this book to be giving us such wonderful biblical principles to guide us as we guide our children into the ministry of marriage. I really enjoyed the whole concept of marriage being a ministry. I'm going to be encouraging the youth in my life to get this book and consider the ministry of marriage!