Model Marriage by Bishop Dag Heward Mills

Model Marriage

3. To avoid fornication

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not

to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his

own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:1,2

4. To have children

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them

have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the

cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon

the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male

and female created he them.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and

replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the

earth.

Genesis 1:26-28

When children enter into the world outside the medium of marriage, they are handicapped and
often turn out to be delinquent.

Please note: The absence of children does not nullify your marriage. Similarly, it is not the
arrival of children that validates the marriage.

Notes

1. Lana Packer, Women Making a Difference in Marriage(Nashville, Tennessee: Lifeway
   Press, 2003), 13 - 20 and David Searle, ed., Truth and Love in a Sexually Disordered World
   (Carlisle, Cumbria, U.K.: Paternoster Publishing, 1997), 6 - 7,72 -74.