COVENANT RELATIONSHIPS
Chapman begins talking about the idea of covenant relationships as something that has become more and more foreign to modern man.
Nowadays, many in the West--and East--perceive of marriage as a contract between man and wife. Either party can eventually then annul the contracted marriage "before death do us part", i.e. whenever one or both parties are no longer happy with it. Chapman confessed to having this attitude in his own marriage early on.
However, later in his marriage, i.e. when Chapman went back to his biblical understanding of covenant--an agreement for example, whereby God had made a covenant with Abraham, Moses, or Jacob and their descendents, Chapman rediscovered that a covenant relationship was not like a contract.
Chapman outlines the five keys of "covenant marriages" as follows:
(1) "Covenant marriages" are initiated for the benefit one's spouse--i.e. not for one's own protection as in many contracts.
(2) "Covenant marriages" require unconditional promises.
(3) "Covenant marriages" are based on steadfast love.
(4) "Covenant marriages" view commitment as permanent.
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