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Meaning of Marriage 3/26/2017 4b. The Mission of Marriage THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE The Mission of Marriage (Part 2) THE MEANING OF MARRIAGE Gods Chisel Have you ever seen this kind of love modeled in your earthly relationships? Grace
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Have you ever seen this kind of love modeled in your earthly relationships?
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to becoming your best friend, or you won’t have a strong, rich marriage that endures and that makes you both vastly better persons for having been in it.”
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someone who understands you better than you do yourself, who makes you a better person just by being around
whether that friendship could become romance and a marriage.”
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energy, industry, and commitment than your spouse. God asks that a man leave his father and mother, as powerful as that relationship may have been, to forge a new union that must be an even more important and powerful force in his life.”
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their wishes and expectations than by your spouse’s. But you can also fail to leave your parents if you resent or hate them too much.”
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Quoting a counselor, “The best way for you to be a great mother to your daughter is by being a great wife to your
thing your daughter needs from you.”
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“pseudo-spouse” seat, and why do they present such a threat to your marriage?
what priorities in your life do you expect will have to change to keep them from turning into pseudo- spouses?
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and our relationship with Christ that Paul says you can’t understand marriage without looking at the gospel.”
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friendship.”
serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.”
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each with our own unique gifts and callings, we become our ‘true selves,’ the persons we were created to be.”
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that real happiness is on the far side of holiness, not the near
line with one another. So if we want to be happy in marriage, we will accept that marriage is designed to make us holy.”
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you see God making your spouse into—a specific description
your spouse and then have a conversation with him/her this week about what you wrote:
(This is where you see the gospel alive and at work in your spouse.)
spouse really flourishing.)
sins and agonies—where we encounter Jesus face to face. What particular kind of joy, redemption and freedom do you envision for your spouse?
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