With the declining state of marriages in the church, how do ministry leaders reach out and help?
Jill: The church needs strong programs from birth up including great children’s programs that teach Biblical principles regarding family and marriage and relationship to God and each other. I think that even though we touch on these things in church curriculum, it needs to be a major theme, for a year maybe. Churches that offer these sorts of programs and even offer them to the community, will find they will attract all sorts of people because so many are hanging on by their fingernails in their marriages and their children are hurting as a result. Stuart: I certainly agree with the need for teaching, but there needs to be teaching that will counter the prevailing philosophies in our secular culture at the present time. When we see the extensive breakdown of marriages and families, it so often has nothing to do with ignorance regarding marriage. The underlying issue is a spiritual malaise in the church in North America where we have become more concerned about being happy than being ho
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