Our Couples Study group is getting started this week!! Walking through the seasons of marriage. Pressing through those difficult seasons and learning from them.
Our study is coming from The Four Seasons of Marriage by Gary Chapman and these last two weeks we learned about the Nature of Marriage!!!
These are the Essentials
COMMITTED
UNITED
INTIMATE
PURPOSEFUL
COMPLEMENTARY
These seem like a few simple things to follow but throw in work, laundry, kids activities, cooking and cleaning, hormones, night terrors, etc sometimes these important things can be pushed aside and not given much intention.
Even when we know we are committed and united as a couple if we fail to pay attention to the other essentials it puts our marriage into a difficult season.
We might be intimate and complementary in our relationship but we are not united or committed. You see, some people can give their spouse what they NEED out of manipulation but they really aren't committed and united the way God intended marriage to be. While others are totally committed but are still struggling to meet the NEEDS of their spouse.
Can you imagine if we all started focusing a little on every aspect of these essentials?? Can you imagine the example for our children of what the Nature of a Marriage should look like? Follow us through this study and see if there might be some essentials that you could BRING HOME. Share your thoughts and comments and we will share ours!!! Give us helpful tips and bible versus to help us remember Gods plan and purpose for Marriage!!!
Looking forward to the journey!!
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