Christian marriage is important for the Church

Kate Orson highlights how marriage is part of God’s original design, but believes we’ve become far too obsessed by it

Marriage goes right back to the garden. God did not think it was good for man to be alone and so he made a “helper suitable for him” (Genesis 2:18); Eve. The word ‘helper’ can be perceived as being a bit derogatory in English, as if a wife’s sole existence is to help out her husband – who does the more important tasks. However a look at the Hebrew, Ezer kenegdo, or ‘suitable helper’, shows that this is a word that God actually uses to refer to himself (see, for example, Psalm 33:20).