Epiphany 2 January 19, 2020 The Sunday of Water into Wine
Epiphany 2 / Life Sunday
John 2:1-11 & Ephesians 5:22-33
January 19, 2020
“God and Family”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
As the world gets older, there are many things of the past that become outdated and optional. Something like the landline phone. Many people today easily live without any landline phone in the house. It’s all cell phones. And it works fine. Or what about a phone book?
Having a camera is now optional. You used to always own a camera. Now we’re often perfectly content to use our phone to take every picture. And even a checkbook is now optional. You can easily get by without checks if you want to in today’s world.
But, obviously, some things will never, ever become optional. We will never outgrow them. Things like water, oxygen, light, rest. These things aren’t optional. And the big one we’re talking about today is marriage and family. Our society is getting the idea that we’re outgrowing and moving past marriage and family. People like to call it “traditional” marriage as if it’s some tradition that is now outdated and optional. Many would like to think that we’re progressing to a time when we won’t need these old, outdated categories and institutions of marriage and family. But this simply isn’t true. You can’t outgrow them or move past them. They’re foundational to life. Without marriage and family, we die. Getting rid of them is simply not an option.
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