Relationships
and Christianity
By Minister B. Henry Kenner
GOD
Most Old Testament scripture would only serve as further support in the area of man’s unwillingness
or his inability to live up to the tests and trials that would face him as this evolving relationship with God progressed through time. It would show one situation after another of man’s
disobedience in light of God’s goodness towards him and God’s eventual correction of man in response to man’s disobedience. There is one book within the recorded annuls of Old Testament
scripture however that would paint another picture of man in the face of certain catastrophe and eventual ruin, and that is the Book of Job. Located within the poetic passages of this book we are
able to find a man standing in the shadow of unimaginable devastation, able to once again stand in God’s marvelous light;
that light where endless blessings abound.
Marriage
The man is given the title of head of the house, so long as he
can carry that responsibility out in a Christ like manner. Paul states also within the wording of this scripture that “…the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church:…..”. Contained
within this passage of scripture is the “escape clause”. Paul tells us clearly here, that the husband must lead
his wife as Christ leads his wife, which is the church. We as Christians couldn’t be convinced in a million years that
Christ would lead the church in a manner that would be hurtful or otherwise harmful to his union with the church. Likewise,
the husband is given the reigns of the marriage so long as he isn’t introducing to that union, something that could
be considered harmful to that union or that could pose a threat to the marriage union’s family as a whole.
