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Marriage should be honoured by all Love music? ried man and its members, woman are to equipping leave father them to funcand mother tion in society. and become This seems “one flesh.” to be a rarOne flesh isn’t ity today and only in referdysfunction, ence to physirather, seems cal intimacy, to be the order but mental, of the day. emotional, There is no and spiritual way a healthy Acts of Faith Les Warriner intimacy. marriage can It’s a separabe attained, tion of depenor maintained dency; a separation when one or both parfrom undue influence; ties are seeking to domia separation from neganate or usurp authority tive cultural influence; over the other. What a separation from happens is that married misguided philosophy couples then tend to go and values. their separate ways, if When I got married, I not through divorce, left behind my father’s then through separate authoritativeness, his interests and activities. verbal abusiveness, his He does his thing, she anger and his bigotry. does her thing. God has Why hold on to the old made man and woman when God has somedifferently by design, thing new and beautiful? and a determination to attain unity in this Les Warriner is diversity is essential to a pastor at Living Way healthy marriage. Foursquare Church in Significantly, Genesis Maple Ridge. 2:24 says that a mar-
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