A friend on Facebook shared a quote from an evangelical preacher who opined that marriage is the "greatest instrument of sanctification." "greatest" Really? I question this for several reasons. - Does that mean those of us who are single, divorced, or widowed will be incompletely sanctified? - Is the marriage relationship the instrument or the environment where sanctification takes place. If it is the former, then it goes against the 1689 London Baptist Confession 13.1: "They who are united to Christ, effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, are also farther sanctified, really and personally, through the same virtue, by His Word and Spirit dwelling in them ; the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakened and mortified, and they more and more quickened and strengthened in...