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Tim and Kathy Keller: Marriage in Gospel Focus (The Gospel Coalition National Women’s Conference LiveBlog)

June 22, 2012 /

Welcome to The Gospel Coalition National Women’s Conference!

  

Tim and Kathy Keller will take the stage in just over two hours for the first pre-conference session and that’s when this LiveBlog will go on the air. Registration is already hopping and I’m enjoying the sound and video check as I complete my final prep for the LiveBlogs.

In just a few minutes, this will no longer be my view:

Hope to see you on the LiveBlog! (To learn more about LiveBlogs in general, please visit this page of my website and feel free to contact me on FaceBook or email me directly with any questions. I’ll do my best to serve you! Also—to hopefully make things easy to find for you, here is a list of all of my LiveBlogs for this conference.)

For the glory of the Lamb,
Tara B.

Pre-Conference Seminar by Tim and Kathy Keller: Marriage in Gospel Focus

To read the near-transcription, just click “Replay” below:


Here are photos of Dr. and Mrs. Keller teaching us during this session:

  

The actual LiveBlog replay above has around 4,000 words in it, so I won’t even attempt to restate the entirety of this teaching. However, here are just a few points that will hopefully whet your appetite and encourage you to read the entire entry.

TIM KELLER

  • I am going to start by talking with you about the place of marriage in our culture today: 1) The unreal and distorted relationship our culture has with marriage; 2) What the underlying beliefs and attitudes are that are causing this; and 3) where the Bible and the gospel can help our culture; what the Bible says that can really resolve this …
  • Essentially, there has been a change in our culture as to the purpose of marriage … Marriage used to be: subordinate ME to my marriage and these other things (my spouse, our gender differences, creating a long-term, stable setting for raising children). Today in society: marriage is about ME …
  • Who do you have to find for a “Me Marriage”? Someone who doesn’t think there is anything wrong with you. Someone you don’t want to change. Someone who has a constant desire to jump into bed. No wonder no one can find that—it doesn’t exist …
  • What is a covenant? An incredible, unbelievable, and for our society, counterintuitive merger or love and law together. More intense, personal, intimate than a merely legal contract; but far more binding and solemn than a merely emotional contract. Covenant love gives a richer understanding of what real love is …

 
KATHY KELLER

  • Christian marriage is an apologetic vehicle that is an invisible window into the character of Christ; His work and His salvation; something that will astonish the world if we do it right …
  • The distinct roles of men and women in marriage reveal the gospel …
  • If submission did not hurt the Second Person of the Trinity, then it surely will not hurt me …
  • God regards us all as He does His own Son; makes us co-heirs.