Your Service

Mark 10:43-45

..Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”


Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who was hanged by the Nazis during World War II, wrote this:

"Marriage is more than your love for each other.  It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance...In your love you see only the heaven of your happiness, but in marriage you are placed at a post of responsibility toward the world and mankind.  Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is something more than personal - it is a status, an office....that joins you together in the sight of God."

Doing good for others as a couple brings a mystical quality into your marriage.  It helps to transcend yourselves and become part of something larger.