Marriage Heat Mission

Marriage Heat Mission –

Marriageheat.com is just over three years old. Millions of visitors have been encouraged by the insights and stories shared in this anonymous community. There are some things we at marriageheat.com have learned as we have edited stories. This learning has helped us renew our marriage heat mission for more impact.

Our renewed Marriage Heat Mission includes these learnings and implications:

1. Holistic Understanding of Marriage Heat

The marriage relationship and all it encompasses connects intimately to marriage sexuality. Most of the sex stories written here are inspired by their relational marriage walk. That walk might be learning to let the sexual part of our relationship be free from hang-ups. That walk might be where marriage sex is the exclamation point declaring more love and commitment.

2. Healthy Sexuality in the Marriage Heat Culture

From the perspective of marriage, even the unmarried imagine sexuality. Marriage sexuality informs the imagination in practices from dating to masturbation. Healthy marriage sexuality is a life-long expression. The expression of marriage sexuality is often a barometer for most couples that their marriage is alive and hot. Healthy Marriage sexuality needs to find expression in our culture and media. We have seen the renewal the Marriage heat stories and comments have brought single and married people.

3. Reclaiming Biblical Marriage Sexuality

Marriage sex is not evil or dirty, the Christian community has adopted many of these notions. We must understand our history on this subject and decide to change our thinking and practice.  Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi of Andrews University wrote a book called THE MARRIAGE COVENANT: A BIBLICAL STUDY ON MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, AND REMARRIAGE. In this book, Bacchiocchi outlined the history of why Christianity developed a negative view of sexuality. This whole book can be found at Biblical Perspectives. He writes about the negative view of sexuality, he says, 

The negative view of sexuality, already present in embryonic form during apostolic times among some Christians, developed fully during the early church, shaping the sexual attitudes of Christians up to modern times. This view can be traced back to Greek philosophy, especially to Platonic thought, which saw man as having two parts: the soul, which is good, and the body, which is bad. Such dualistic thinking influenced Christianity through a movement known as Gnosticism. This heretical movement taught that all matter, including the human body, was evil. Only the spark of the divine in man (soul) is good and through special knowledge (gnosis) such a spark could be released from the human body and returned to the divine realm. Thus, salvation was perceived as the liberation of the soul from the prison-house of the body.

This dualistic teaching greatly influenced Christian thought through the centuries to the point that many Christians gradually abandoned the Biblical view of the resurrection of the body, replacing it with the Greek concept of the immortality of the soul. The fundamental error of this view, which an increasing number of scholars are rejecting as unBiblical, is its assumption that matter is evil and must be destroyed. Such a view is clearly discredited by those Biblical texts which teach that matter, including the human body, is the product of God’s good creation (Gen 1:4, 10 12, 18, 21, 25, 31). The Psalmist declares: “For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works” (Psalm 139:13-14).

The adoption of the unBiblical Greek notion of the human body as intrinsically evil has led many Christians through the centuries into a warped attitude toward sex. Its effect still lingers, as many today are still uneasy about their marital sexual relations, viewing them as something tainted with sin.

4.  One Flesh in the Expanded Marriage Heat Mission Statement.

We at marriage heat understood the importance of “one flesh” and we are expanding the scope of the marriage topics covered. The future of marriage heat is going to include stories and insights integrating relationship love with sexual expression. In our continued rejection of “dualism,” we will expand our content to more intentionally include the whole marriage relationship which often has a marriage sex tie-in.

Our updated definition of “marriage heat” refers to a “marriage heat” life view. This heat is a holy fire that warms the soul to glorify God as we grow in a deeper walk with our Creator and Redeemer.  This “marriage heat” life view builds up husband and wife to “love” each other more in the fullness of their entire relationship. This “marriage heat” is a holy fire that brings loving and pleasurable expression of sexual practice within the culture and context of marriage imagination and commitment.

An updated Marriageheat.com website is being developed that will invite anonymous user submitted content. Here is a peek at some of the new “Marriage Heat” worldview topics and categories that will be featured and talked about to inspire hot monogamy. MarriageHeat.com will also look for more ways to provide products and services that build marriage heat.

Marriage Love Stories and Insights

• Walking With God
• Love Quotes
• Love Poems
• Dating
• First Kiss
• Communication
• Exhaustion
• Forgiveness
• Conflict Resolution
• Blended Families
• Care for Elderly Parents
• And More (Submit Your Ideas)

Marriage Advise

• Forums
• Finding Your Spouse
• Marriage Smart People Skills
• Women’s Health
• Men’s Health
• Beauty
• Sex Education
• Pregnancy
• Breast Feeding
• Raising Children
• Homemakers
• Meal Planning
• Birth Order
• Book Reviews
• Movie Reviews
• Suggested Links
• Divorce
• Remarriage
• And More (Submit Your Ideas)

5. The Anonymous Community Works

Marriageheat.com has sought to protect the privacy of members to playfully and lovingly share their stories, ideas and insights concerning marriage heat. Our goal is to preserve the free exchange of content that builds holistic marriage heat. On a related note, a large amount of content was submitted in the last three years that did not relate to the guidelines of MarriageHeat.com. Our editorial staff will continue to monitor the content to keep it according to the marriage heat guidelines. We are trying to bring the best insights and stories that build marriage culture.

6. The Marriage Heat Team

The marriage heat team consists of four “marriage heat” enthusiasts who run the site. There have been hundreds of volunteer contributors who share their insights and stories. We love the fact that these stories are based on real or imagined situations of married life. To us, it is the imagination of every contributor where reality and creativity build a holy fire. The story tellers of today can find a way to tell real or imagined stories that honor the sacred institution of marriage here at Marriage Heat. Even if no else will tell these stories, marriageheat.com will!

7. Classy Look and Feel

We have been getting a great amount of feedback, including comments and emails about the MarriageHeat site and how we organize and include more content.  The editorial staff has been taking note of the suggestions for making MarriageHeat something that will impact even more people. Please give us your suggestions. Email your suggestions here.

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