The message is based on the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10, verses 2 through 16.
In today's reading, Jesus was asked about divorce. In the Lord's day, divorce was permitted for infidelity, so it might have been easy to condemn a guilty party. But Jesus did not use this occasion to condemn people; rather, he used it to consider the deeper meaning of marriage.
The creation stories in Genesis can help us understand marriage. The second story states that man should not b e alone, and the first story tells us that we were created in the likeness of God. God is love, so marriage is--at its deepest level--to learn and to teach love.
People leave their parents to become married. For a child, the family relationship is "me-centered." But in marriage one enters the "we-centered" relationship of a new family.
This applies to church families, too. As we work at relating well with one another, we will find peace, joy, and healing in our congregation.
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