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Marriage should focus more on Christ and his redemption, than on "male-female" roles. Sometimes the opportunity to meet new friends comes and goes, but because of pride, the opportunity fades.
Marriage that is over institutionalized has a tendency to "fail" more easily. For example, focus so heavily on "male roles" and "female roles" and what they are SUPPOSED to be doing, can create an invisible tension.
Rather focus on CHRIST and study HIM! That way the "male role" will be right in the eyes of GOD and the "female role" will be right in the eyes of GOD. The more focus, attention, admiration and love is given to JESUS, the less likely the married couple will fail in their ability to thrive in the marriage.
A great example is the "sermon on the mount." If one of the spouse's doesn't see the "good" in the other person, then the other spouse can be merciful and see to it that they do, by their goodness and kindness.
Furthermore, focusing so heavily on "male female roles" has the potential to mislead some people into a deception that ONLY the married "male and female" are godly in God's eyes, when this is ENTIRELY not the case. There are married and separated or even divorced people who LOVE JESUS, but because of something that went wrong in their interpretation or understanding, their life was in bondage for a time and relationship didn't thrive. Jesus knew that some relationships would have difficulty. This doesn't mean that they can never pick themselves back up again, it is that, the people just need to lean on HIM more.
When a couple sees that only "their" relationship matters, so long as there is no severe persecution, they could have the possibility of missing the opportunity to serving others, loving others better because of their relationship. Essentially, a person's EXPERIENCE in knowing JESUS should shine in the marriage and outside of the marriage in equal presence and experience.
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