Former BACHELOR Star Holds This Biblical View of Marriage
By Movieguide® Contributor
Former BACHELOR contestant Madison Prewett Troutt shared how marriage is a picture of the Gospel during an episode of her “Stay True” podcast.
“I think what’s so interesting about marriage is how the Gospel and marriage are one. And that might sound really weird for some people if you haven’t really studied Ephesians 5,” she began.
Ephesians 5:31-33 says, “’For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”
“It’s a great passage in scripture,” Prewett Troutt continued, “but it talks all about that, and like the Gospel and marriage and how a marriage on Earth between a husband and wife is really just a greater picture of the Gospel…the Gospel is really what marriage is, and marriage was created for evidence of Christ’s love for us and what Christ has done for us and how Christ pursues us.”
Prewett Troutt made sure to clarify that a relationship with God is more important than marriage.
“I never want to elevate marriage to say this is the greatest thing you’ll ever experience. God is the greatest thing you will ever experience,” she added.
It’s easy to become selfish in marriage, but Prewett Troutt explained that spouses in a godly marriage should strive to lay down their lives for the other.
“It’s so easy for us to get caught up in ‘my spouse isn’t giving me what I need,’ you know, ‘my marriage needs to serve me,’ and it’s like, at the end of the day, the best marriage is two people in love with Jesus that lay down their life for one another,” she said.
Prewett Troutt married her husband, Grant, in 2022 after a three-month engagement.
“I wanted to see his patterns. I wanted to see who he consistently was and who he was becoming, the choices that he was making, the habits he was developing, the way he loved God and loved other people, and he wanted to see that in me,” she told PEOPLE of their short engagement. “And so we took the time that we felt we needed.”
“What we are most excited for is a lifetime together,” Prewett Troutt said after their wedding. “We are most looking forward to walking out God’s purpose for our life together. We can’t wait to get plugged into a local church and host community in our new home!”
Last year, she released a book titled “The Love Everybody Wants.” Movieguide® previously reported on how she realized that God’s love is more satisfying than any human relationship:
When reflecting on singleness, Prewett Troutt explained that many singles believe a relationship will complete them. Through praying and talking to God, she realized that only He can make her whole.
“We feel we have to find completion in the things of this world or in someone else, and it was a moment for me that actually led to the inspiration behind this book, where I had this moment alone in my room I was praying, and I was frustrated with God, and I was like ‘Why haven’t I found my spouse?’” she said.
“And I felt like my purpose was put on hold. I felt like I was waiting for someone else to satisfy me,” Prewett Troutt continued. “It was in that moment where God just spoke to me and said, ‘Madi, you’re looking for all the right things in all the wrong places. You’re trying to find what you’re looking for in another person, and it can only be found in me.’”
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