{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hope Community Church","title":"Is Marriage Still Important? | Ben Foote","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2156,"description":"Start to Finish Week 1 - Is Marriage Still Important? \nBen Foote (Teaching Pastor - Flatirons Community Church)\n\nDescription:\n\nThese days it's easy to wonder if marriage still is (or ever was) all that important. In week one of the series, Ben Foote (Teaching Pastor of Flatirons Community Church) takes a look at what Jesus has to say about marriage and brings back the why for those of us who may have forgotten.\n—\nMessage Notes:\n\n  \nLife is not a sprint. We need to focus on living a godly life From Start to Finish. Christianity helps us for the long haul in youth, singleness, marriage, parenting and aging.    \nWhy is marriage so important?  \nJesus directly addresses marriage and divorce.\nMatthew 19:1-2 (NIV)\n\nMatthew 19:3 (NIV)\n\nIn Jesus’ time, there were basically two sides of the divorce debate.\n 1. God only allows divorce in the case of infidelity.\n 2. God allows divorce for any and every reason.\nThe culture in Jesus’ time sounded something like this about marriage:\nMarriage is a contract that can be easily broken whenever men don’t feel served or pleased by it anymore.\nJesus responds to the Pharisees trying to trap Him on the issue of divorce.\nMatthew 19:4-6 (NIV)\n\nJesus’ answer points to two different Scriptures on why marriage is important.\nGenesis 1:27 (ESV)\n\nGenesis 2:24 (BSB)\nGod unites the man and woman into ONE FLESH, one spiritually inseparable unit, to reflect God’s goodness to the world around us.\nWhy is marriage so important? \nJesus says marriage is NOT a contract but a COVENANT.\nCovenant: A spiritually-binding oath between God and His people.\nThe common view of marriage in Jesus time:\nMarriage is a contract that can be easily broken whenever men don’t feel served or pleased by it anymore.\nJesus’ view of marriage:\nMarriage is a covenant that cannot be broken without doing a lot of damage because marriage is a covenant designed to show the world what God looks like.\nMarriage is uniquely designed to show the world what God’s never-ending,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uIknl95K8nsizSpDgj3alnQLSEl2Cb8_jelQ0immGpA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZDA4/ODBiZWNiMzBmOWEz/Mzc0Y2RjMWVlMDBj/NGI2NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}