Take 10 Minutes for Marriage This Sunday

Next Tuesday, April 28, the United States Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments for and against redefining marriage in America. Marriage between a man and a woman is a God-ordained institution; therefore, the courts in our land do not need to attempt to redefine what God Himself has already defined clearly.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission has long championed the sanctity of marriage publicly and privately, as well as with the court. Read more from Dr. Russell Moore here.

Religious Liberty and Marriage

If the United States Supreme Court rules to redefine marriage, the continual attack that is already taking place on religious liberty will be escalated. Businesses, schools, churches, leaders, pastors, and all Bible-believing Christ-followers may begin to be called upon to compromise their religious convictions. This would be a sad day in America.

If we lose the freedom of religion, then all the freedoms we have today will begin to diminish.

Take 10 Minutes for Marriage This Sunday

I want to join with many other Christian leaders across America to call upon our churches to do these three things on Sunday, April 26:

1. Pray for the United States Supreme Court, the attorneys who will present their arguments, and ultimately for the truth to prevail, upholding marriage as we believe it biblically and have practiced it traditionally since the beginning of time. For more details on ways to pray, see Dr. Russell Moore’s article here.

2. Pray for God to sustain each of us and prepare us to live humbly before Him and others regardless of the decision released this summer.

 3. Show this video or at least a portion of it to our churches this Sunday before we pray. Dr. Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, gives us a challenging word in the video, and it can help us know how to pray more effectively.

Surely, on this pivotal Sunday, every evangelical church can at least pray for marriage to be upheld in this country.

If it is too late to for your church to allocate a ten-minute section for a portion of this video to be shown and for prayer to occur, at least look at points 1 and 2 above and use them to take time to pray for marriage in our land. Thank you for considering this important and urgent request.

Take 10 Minutes for Marriage This Sunday, 

Ronnie W. Floyd