Cultivating a Healthy Marriage with Tim Keller

Marriage as Friendship

Jul 23, 2024

The podcast explores the concept of marriage as a deep friendship with eternal dimensions, emphasizing the importance of choosing a spouse who can be a best friend. It discusses the journey towards a shared horizon in marriage, focusing on unity, partnership, and mutual growth. The episode also highlights the significance of cultivating friendship, intimacy, and genuine companionship within the marital relationship.

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Marriage is a spiritual friendship with eternal dimensions, emphasizing oneness and journeying together towards a common horizon.

Partners in marriage are compared to a furnace, where faults are addressed, strengths affirmed, and growth fostered through mutual cleansing and nourishing.

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Marriage as Cosmic Friendship

Marriage, as discussed in the podcast, is framed as a spiritual friendship with eternal dimensions. Highlighting Ephesians' passage on submission and love between partners, the core thesis emphasizes that marriage is primarily friendship rather than romance. The concept is described as a deep oneness achieved through mutual journeying toward a common horizon.

Intro

2min

Marriage as Friendship: A Biblical Perspective

4min

Journeying Together Towards a Shared Horizon in Marriage

10min

Exploring the Deep Need for Friendship and Completion in Marriage

2min

Cultivating Friendship and Intimacy in Marriage

16min

Marriage is a cosmic friendship, a spiritual friendship, a friendship with eternal dimensions. Marriage is not romance garnished with friendship. Rather, biblically, marriage is friendship garnished with romance.

If you’re going to marry somebody, you should marry someone who is now or has the potential to be your very best friend. But friendship is not just a feeling of affection. Friendship is a particular form of love, and it has a structure.

The structure of friendship is a deep oneness that comes from two people journeying together toward a common horizon. Let’s look now at 1) the common horizon, 2) how you get to that horizon, and 3) the implications of journeying together toward that horizon.

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on September 15, 1991. Series: Marriage. Scripture: Ephesians 5:22-33.

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