To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered

On the Drudge Report there is a link to a story about the apparent decline in marriage throughout our country. As you will see in the quotes, the total number of marriages is at all time high, but the percent of married couples is down. Below are a couple of quotes:

"released this month by the Census Bureau, found that 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, of the nation’s 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples — with and without children — just shy of a majority and down from more than 52 percent five years earlier."

"The numbers by no means suggests marriage is dead or necessarily that a tipping point has been reached. The total number of married couples is higher than ever, and most Americans eventually marry. But marriage has been facing more competition. A growing number of adults are spending more of their lives single or living unmarried with partners, and the potential social and economic implications are profound."

In our culture, marriage is not what it ought to be, but then again, why be amazed at that those outside of the church do not behave like the church? Maybe the world needs to see how marriage should be before it will accept the truth concerning marriage? Then again, maybe the world needs to find peace in Christ before it will accept the things of Christ.

Maybe what the world needs is for married Christians to befriend unmarried unbelievers and mentor them to an understanding of how Christ will impact their relationship.

May we be the salt and light that we have been called to be.