Worldview was on display at a church in Silver Spring, Maryland a few days ago. What did it look like?

A lovely bride, dressed in white. A groom looking giddily in love. Promises to love and to cherish, as long as they lived.

If this sounds like an ordinary wedding-well, that’s just evidence that worldview is not always easy to spot. For instance, you couldn’t tell by looking that the bride and groom had never spent a night together before the wedding-unlike most couples these days.

They were both committed Christians-unlike many other brides and grooms who want a church wedding because it’s “traditional.” Most important of all, this young couple fully understood-and embraced-the meaning and purposes of marriage.

Christians view marriage as a framework for rearing the next generation. This, Kass notes, “is the business of adults, by which I mean, people who are serious about life, people who aspire to go outward and forward to embrace and to assume responsibility for the future.”

By contrast, the secular world sees the carefree attitude and independence of youth, not as a stage on the way to maturity, but as a permanent and desirable way of living…

This confusion and ignorance about the meaning of purpose of marriage is why Christian parents have to do much more than simply make sure their kids accept Christ and attend church potlucks. They’ve got to make sure their kids understand the biblical view of marriage and the biblical view of life itself. And a good place to start, by the way, is by introducing them to the Manhattan Declaration. [Editor’s note: the original URL (link) referenced is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.]

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