CHURCH IS FAMILY

'A church true to Jesus will organize congregational life around the family of believers and order domestic life toward God's kingdom.'

Darrin W Synder Belousek, Marriage, Scripture, and the Church, p.83. 

LOOOKING WITH JESUS AT MARRIAGE

'When we look back with Jesus to creation, we see marriage established: God's purpose at creation's beginning for marriage as man-woman monogamy. And we look forward with Jesus to resurrection, we see marriage surpassed: God's promise at creation's completion of life-beyond-marriage in life-beyond-death. When we look with the vision of Jesus in the Gospels - whether from the beginning or toward the end - same-sex union does not appear on either horizon.'

Darrin W Synder Belousek, Marriage, Scripture, and the Church, p.78.

WHAT IS MARRIAGE?

'Theologically, marriage is a living icon of the divine economy - an embodied and enacted reflection of God's design in creation and plan of salvation.'

Darrin W Synder Belousek, Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-sex Union, p.51.