I said that 99.82% of all of fault in the failure of ‘helping’ our unmarried people get married lies with the fathers. So now, in a startling example of what the concept of ‘overlapping responsibility’ means, I am going to give 99.99% of the fault to pastors. Pastors, elders, teachers, authors, Godly men in the church in general. Those to whom God has given the responsibility to teach doctrine. They have failed, and failed mightily. They have failed to ‘let them marry’.
There are so many reasons to wait to build a family until you're in your 60s. You rightly point out the failures of that model, morally, culturally as well as financially. Perhaps reconsidering a practice which worked quite well in the past is reasonable.
Acceptance of that begins in the home and continues in the pew; supplemented in the living room and around the dining room table. A parallel society of Christians. Do we have any precedent? Besides the Book of Acts, I mean, or the following 1800 years...
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There are so many reasons to wait to build a family until you're in your 60s. You rightly point out the failures of that model, morally, culturally as well as financially. Perhaps reconsidering a practice which worked quite well in the past is reasonable.
Acceptance of that begins in the home and continues in the pew; supplemented in the living room and around the dining room table. A parallel society of Christians. Do we have any precedent? Besides the Book of Acts, I mean, or the following 1800 years...