Status Updates From Acts: A Theological Comment...

“Christians often turn marriage from an act of worship into an object of worship and turn the couple from a shared journey of disciples into the end and goal of discipleship.… The couple now exists for us as a stronger and more compelling reality of life together than the church, any church.”

“Indeed the Spirit seems to always be pressing the disciples to go to those to whom they would in fact strongly prefer never to share space, or a meal, and definitely not life together. Yet it is precisely this prodding to be boundary-crossing and border-transgressing that marks the presence of the Spirit of God.”