Marriage gets a lot of attention in the church but relationships don't. It is easy to forget, after all, that when you boil it all down marriage is merely a relationship. Perhaps you would agree with me that a lot of the church's collective thought is given to marriage and less so to normal, everyday relationships. Perhaps this is because, culturally speaking, we are more turned on by romance and less so by friendships. Just make a list of movies featuring friendships vs romance and you will quickly see which heading had the more titles under it. Paul uses the imagery of a body in 1 Corinthians 12-13 when he describes the church. Even though Scripture doesn't come in and announce that God will now be speaking on relationships a lot is being said on human interaction. When we think about how humans should interact with each other we need to give thought to what God thinks and how God has designed. When we learn that God thinks of his people as a body we start to realize t...
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