Ryan Corbett - Seminary Student

Rare is the book with dating and marriage as its topic that I feel I can recommended without reservation. By navigating around the deceptive and unsatisfying philosophies and techniques of the world, Alex and Marni have given us a clear restatement of God's intentions for man and woman in marriage. With One Voice unashamedly embraces the Bible as its foundation and the glory of Christ as its goal. It does not shrink back from addressing difficult and delicate subjects with an appropriate sensitivity but a necessary boldness. Its ideas will grate upon modern suppositions, but when put into practice by believing couples, will contribute to a harmony and happiness which reflect the majesty and wisdom of God.

Some conservative voices on the subject can tend to confuse the precepts of Scripture with an idealized cultural packaging from the past. Alex has managed to articulate and apply biblical principles for dating and marriage without harnessing them to a by-gone social age. He aptly demonstrates that the wisdom of the Word on the matter of male-female relationships can find expression in our own contemporary society and still broadcast the excellencies of Christ to our generation just as clearly as in Puritan England or Colonial America.

Moreover, Alex and Marni demonstrate with their lives that God's pattern is best. As a personal friend of this pair, I can testify that their relationship has an attractiveness and Christwardness that commends their counsel. Don't despise their youth. What they may lack in life experience is offset by the obvious early insights God has given them into His Word and contemporary culture. Anyone with a hunger to discover more of God's good purposes in marriage will benefit from this read.