Cross Culture Marriage

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levi85

levi85

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Friends, do you think that God, can speak a person, to marry someone from another culture, another country. Can He bring them together, by giving them a work where, God may use the one from the different culture tremendously.

Is there any examples where a cross culture marriage happened, and the husband and wife are blessings to other, and are useful to Christ's work.

i am eager to know, if God speaks to you for a cross culture marriage, will you accpet?

God bless!
 
maxwel

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wisebeardman said:
people do it every day.
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Yeah... people do it every day.

I think that because cultural problems create extra problems in communication, you should be "extra" careful getting into a cross cultural relationship.

But certainly nothing wrong with it.
 
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mystikmind

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There are advantages, if your not so good with words, and your language is their second language, they may not realize it! lol
 
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MyLighthouse

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I'm multiracial (four races, yea!) and think cross culture marriage sounds no different. I would accept! It's has it's difficulties but it's worth all the diversity, cultural understanding, and fun you get from having more than one culture.
 
secularhermit

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Hispanic too?

Before marriage, it is adviced dating, even by using skype. Otherwise, "future" can be guessed.

:p
 
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Culture is a human issue. Yes, there can be problems, but both people have to go into things with the awareness that there are going to be differences, and that they have to accept them, even if they can't understand them.
But the best thing to do, early on, is talk about the differences that may come up. Possibly find others who have crossed the same cultures to see what issues they faced.
 
seoulsearch

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Neither my siblings nor I married someone of the same race or culture. All of us were involved in cross cultural/racial relationships. Although my situation did not work out, my siblings' marriages are still going strong. I also have several friends who are in or have been in white/black relationships, which is, unfortunately, still a hot button topic in my old hometown.

Cross cultural relationships are nothing to be taken lightly though, because there are not one but two sets of standards and expectations that you will somehow have to meet or find a compromise that works. You won't please both sides all the time, and that can create some conflicts. You may also have the expense of visiting family in another country, or allowing your spouse to go see their family for stretches of time without you.

Of course, these kinds of things can happen in any family but are of special consideration when two cultures (sometimes completely different) are joined together.
 
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cmarieh

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Well, I don't really see anything wrong with it. However, I am not attracted to a person of a mixed ethnicity. It may be as a result of growing up where I did.
 
GandalfTheWhite

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From a Biblical point of view we know that Moses was married to Cushite and also Ruth and Boaz.
 
Lynx

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I'm still waiting for the part about God speaking to someone to marry one from a different culture. IMO everyone has so far missed the main point of this thread's OP.

Kind of a let-down really... I was bracing for the "God doesn't designate a spouse!" people to start fussing. :rolleyes:
 
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JesusistheChrist

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Lynx said:
I'm still waiting for the part about God speaking to someone to marry one from a different culture. IMO everyone has so far missed the main point of this thread's OP.

Kind of a let-down really... I was bracing for the "God doesn't designate a spouse!" people to start fussing. :rolleyes:
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I was a sworn eunuch for the kingdom of God and God plainly told me who to marry. I am a white American who is married to a black Panamanian and we have three children together.
 
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JesusistheChrist

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levi85 said:
Friends, do you think that God, can speak a person, to marry someone from another culture, another country. Can He bring them together, by giving them a work where, God may use the one from the different culture tremendously.

Is there any examples where a cross culture marriage happened, and the husband and wife are blessings to other, and are useful to Christ's work.

i am eager to know, if God speaks to you for a cross culture marriage, will you accpet?

God bless!
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The ultimate "cross culture marriage" will take place at the marriage supper of the Lamb in which people from every kindred, tribe and tongue will be eternally joined unto the Lord their Husband.
 
secularhermit

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@ Lynx:

What about that man God asked to marry a prostitute?

Hos 1:2 The LORD said, "Hosea, Israel has betrayed me like an unfaithful wife. Marry such a woman and have children by her.
Hos 1:3 So I married Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and we had a son.

It wasn´t the same "culture" he had to embrace.

Just drifting away on lines of Hosea...
 
Lynx

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secularhermit: I didn't say I was fussing about it. I was waiting for the people who can always be counted on to start fussing about it. =^.^=
 
secularhermit

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levi85 said:
Friends, do you think that God, can speak a person, to marry someone from another culture, another country. Can He bring them together, by giving them a work where, God may use the one from the different culture tremendously.

Is there any examples where a cross culture marriage happened, and the husband and wife are blessings to other, and are useful to Christ's work.

i am eager to know, if God speaks to you for a cross culture marriage, will you accpet?

God bless!
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I guess when Moses or Jacob fled elsewhere God also planned for them their CROSS, their WIFE and family... One of those I like is Joseph (a dreamer, by the way).
 
secularhermit

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Lynx said:
secularhermit: I didn't say I was fussing about it. I was waiting for the people who can always be counted on to start fussing about it. =^.^=
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Oh! Excuse me for misunderstanding you, sir.

:)
 
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JesusistheChrist said:
I was a sworn eunuch for the kingdom of God and God plainly told me who to marry. I am a white American who is married to a black Panamanian and we have three children together.
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I shouldn't have really said "a SWORN eunuch for the kingdom of God" in that I made no such oath. Instead, I had no desire whatsoever to be married in that I wanted to serve the Lord without distraction as Paul spoke of in his first epistle to the Corinthians...or at least in what we call his first epistle to the Corinthians (he had apparently written to them earlier via some means).
 
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