Adam Potter

“Already in the Old Testament, God’s love for Israel had been compared to the marital bond (Isa 62:5; Jer 2–3; Ezek 16; Hos 1–3), but here that imagery becomes Christologically specific. It is the love of Christ for the church, a love that will culminate in an eschatological wedding feast (Rev 19:7, 9; cf. 21:2), that earthly couples image and in which they participate. The created good of marriage, marked by its openness to children and its faithful union, is taken up into Christian life and made to be an outward and visible sign of the love of God in Christ. In”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

“every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, [which] will “turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

“apart from marriage, our friendship should count as one of the things that remain stable. But just this is not so in the estimation of others and the consideration that they give it. It is marriage—whether it is the more stable of the two or not—that gets the outward consideration and recognition. Everyone, in this case the whole family, must take it into account and thinks it right that much has to be done, and should be done, on behalf of a married couple. Friendship, even when it’s so exclusive and includes all of each other’s goods, as it is with us, doesn’t have any “necessitas,”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“The Incarnate One is truly human as well as truly divine, and so properly spoken of as our friend and brother as well as our Lord and God.”
― Preston Sprinkle, Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church