Addendum: Parenting Like Marriage

In my haste to write the previous post on marriage, I failed to acknowledge that the thoughts therein are not orginal with or exclusive to me. Most recently, Dr. Jim Coffield (a professional counselor and adjunct faculty at RTS) spoke on the specifics of seeing marriage as part of a larger (more meaningful) whole. During the conference, reference was also made to the book titled Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas, in which he gives a fuller exposition of the themes that Dr. Coffield raised so winsomely. Of course, the Bible is their source, and it extols marriage in the greatest terms in many places, such as Genesis 1-3 and Mark 12:18-27 (cf. Matthew 22:23-33 and Luke 20:27-40), and Ephesians 5:22-33 (cf. Colossians 3:18-25). Other sources could be cited, but my point is to give Dr. Coffield his due: thanks, Dr. Coffield.