The
marriage covenant confirms a relationship to last for the entire life (Romans
7:2). The family is a covenant relationship of greatest importance to any
healthy community. The family is the basic building block of the covenant
community at large. If the families don’t function, the covenant community
can’t function properly (1 Tim.3:4-5).

Fragmentation
is the order of the secular society. Dysfunctional families seem to explode in
numbers. The family patterns are radically changing in society and changing
society likewise. We are facing a big challenge as new marriage laws are
introduced and the definition of marriage is changed to a gender neutral
relationship. The new covenant is constantly portrait in family terms:

There will
be heard once more the sounds of joy and laughter. The joyful voices of
bridegrooms and brides will be heard again, along with the joyous songs of
people bringing thanksgiving offerings to the Lord.
They will sing,

‘Give
thanks to the Lord Almighty, for
the Lord is good. His faithful
love endures forever!’ Jeremiah
33:10-11

And now the
Lord says: I am returning to

Mount

Zion

,
and I will live in

Jerusalem

.
Then

Jerusalem

will be called the

Faithful

City

; the mountain of the
Lord Almighty will be called the

Holy

Mountain

.
This is what the Lord Almighty
says: Once again old men and women will walk

Jerusalem

’s streets with a cane and sit
together in the city squares. And the streets of the city will be filled with
boys and girls at play. Zechariah 8:3-5

 

No
generational gap – Age-ism is banned

No
gender gap – Sex-ism is banned

No
leadership gap – Elite-ism is banned

No
social gap – Cast-ism is banned

No
ethnic gap – Racism is banned

(See
Galatians 3:26; Colossians 3:11)