Mark Driscoll, controversial senior pastor of the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, posted a clip from his latest Genesis sermon series titled “Why is Your Spouse the Second Most Important Decision of Your Life?”
In the clip, Driscoll shares what he believes to be a myth about marriage: that it is better to wait until your late twenties or early thirties to get married so that you’ll be better equipped and therefore less likely to divorce.
Driscoll wrote on Facebook that instead of preparing for marriage, society encourages young people to spend their twenties “wasting time, dating, fornicating, drinking, and wasting time, and causing trauma in our own lives. It’s not about how old or wise you are, it’s about how prepared you are for marriage.”