Preacher Gary Robinson writes:
...It’s no big surprise that times have changed. But God hasn’t...
...To be chaste, then, is to follow this rule: Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.
...Yet even when we know what God wants, even when we acknowledge that He knows best, we don’t always want what God wants. We’re afraid He’s keeping
something from us...
...80 percent of cohabiting couples [end] their relationship at some point...
He lists a number of serious problems associated with living together and asks (rhetorically):
...So by insisting on marriage, is God trying to rob us? Is He hiding some greater good from us?...
...I agree with VanGoethem: “It’s not the calling of pastors to be in step with the times. It’s the calling of pastors to call the times to be in step with God.”
It isn’t that everybody has to be married. But everybody is called to chastity. Who will preach that message if not the church?
