| The Christian marriage advice that you find today | | | | The Church honors, respects and is faithful in |
| seems to be mostly tainted by worldly views and | | | | service to Jesus. The Wife should be honorable, |
| philosophies. The true biblical relationship that a | | | | respectful and faithful to her Husband. This does |
| marriage is founded on has become diluted and | | | | not mean that he has the right to treat her any |
| polluted. That is obvious by the alarming numbers | | | | way he pleases. He is supposed to love her as |
| that show the divorce rate in the church is as | | | | Christ loved the Church. The Wife is the Husbands |
| high as with people who do not go to church. | | | | helper just as the Church helps spread the Word |
| Something has gone wrong with the message in | | | | of God. |
| the church if this is the case. Maybe they just do | | | | The Husband and Wife cannot act independently |
| not explain the principles clearly enough for people | | | | of each other and expect their marriage to be |
| to understand what it symbolizes. | | | | strong. They both have their own roles to fulfill in |
| The Holy Union | | | | the marriage and they are equally important. The |
| The Holy Union between a Husband and a Wife is | | | | Wife without the Husband is like the Church |
| symbolic of the relationship between Jesus and | | | | without Jesus. The Husband without the Wife is |
| the Church. It says in the Bible that the Husband | | | | like Jesus without the Church. What good are |
| is supposed to love his Wife as Christ loves the | | | | they without the other? |
| Church. What did Christ do for the Church? He | | | | Christian marriage advice should include the Biblical |
| died for them! He did it even though they spit on | | | | principles of the Husband and Wife relationship. A |
| Him, beat Him and crucified and killed Him. He | | | | clear vision of the plan that God has created in |
| loved them anyway. | | | | marriage requires understanding the relationship |
| This means that the Husband should love his Wife | | | | between the Church and Jesus. The whole |
| no matter what she does. This does not give the | | | | foundation of marriage has symbolic meanings |
| Wife free reign to do what she wills whether she | | | | that are meant to help us understand our |
| is right or wrong. This means that the Husband is | | | | relationship with God. The Husband completes the |
| supposed to love her and accept her even with | | | | Wife and the Wife completes the Husband. They |
| her flaws and imperfections. This is what Jesus did | | | | are One in union just as the Church is One in |
| for the Church. | | | | union with Jesus. |
| The Husband is placed as head of the family and | | | | So good Christian marriage advice is for the |
| the wife. The Husband is supposed to get | | | | Husbands and Wives to seek to understand their |
| instructions and guidance from God like Jesus did. | | | | roles in the marriage union and what it means. |
| This does not mean that he is in charge of his | | | | They need each other to fulfill their roles in order |
| Wife like she is his slave. It means that through | | | | to be complete the way God intended them to |
| prayer and learning Gods Word he is to take the | | | | be. Either way you look at it both Jesus and the |
| role of Priest in his household. He is to govern it | | | | Church give their love unselfishly to each other |
| with the love and wisdom that God gives to us. | | | | and this is what the Husband and Wife must do. |
| The role of the Wife is symbolic of the Church. | | | | |