Marriage Questions about Sex, Submission, and In-Laws (Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn)

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Marriage is a wonderful gift given to us by God for our good, the good of our children, and ultimately the good of the world. And yet, despite this, marriage is hard and we often have questions. What's the ultimate purpose of marriage? Does the Bible really tell wives to submit to their husbands? How can couples cultivate a marriage marked by grace and forgiveness? The Van Dixhoorns answer these questions and more in this interview. Chad Van Dixhoorn is a professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary and a former pastor in the United Kingdom and Virginia. Emily is a stay-at-home mom who leads and loves Bible studies and women’s retreats. Chad and Emily have five children. Check out Chad and Emily's book on marriage called Gospel-Shaped Marriage: Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints. Read the full transcript of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Complete this survey for a free audiobook by Kevin DeYoung!

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0:00.0	Marriage is a wonderful gift given to us by God for our good, the good of our children, and ultimately the good of the world.
0:11.3	And yet, despite this, marriage is sometimes hard, and we often have questions.
0:16.3	What's the ultimate purpose of marriage? Does the Bible really tell wives to submit to their husbands?
0:22.3	How can couples cultivate a marriage marked by grace and forgiveness?
0:26.9	In our interview today, I'm talking with Chad and Emily Van Dixhorn, the husband and wife
0:31.3	team behind the new book, Gospel-shaped Marriage, Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints, from
0:36.7	Crossway. Let's get started.
0:42.7	Well, Chad and Emily, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.
0:48.8	Well, thank you for having us. It's a pleasure to be here. Today I wanted to go through a number of
0:54.0	quick questions that people often have, that we all have about marriage, whether we are single and wanting to be married, maybe recently married, or have been married for a long time.
1:04.2	There's so much to marriage, and it can be sometimes confusing. We might not know how to think about or handle a certain situation.
1:11.9	Chad, how would you summarize the Bible's big overarching teaching on the meaning and the purpose of
1:18.6	marriage? Because I think that's something that we sometimes maybe assume that we know or
1:22.4	understand, but if we were asked, tell me, you know, simply, what is marriage for? We might struggle to actually give a definition.
1:29.7	And certainly in the broader culture, I think there's a lot of confusion about why marriage exists and what it's for.
1:35.6	So how would you summarize that?
1:37.8	Well, it's going back to the garden, we see it's for mutual support and companionship.
1:43.5	We can figure out from Genesis 1 and 2,
1:45.6	it's for the reproduction of the human race. After the fall, it's also for the promotion of
1:51.9	sexual purity. And marriage is a way in which it's one context in which we can multiply
1:59.7	our usefulness as Christians and encourage each other in the race,
2:05.1	in the Christian race as we run together. So marriage is a help in sanctification and glorifying
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