three ingredients for baking a good tasting marriage ephesians 5:21-6:4 niv family matters

Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage

Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV

Family Matters


“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.


Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.


He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. "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. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."Honor your father and mother"—which is the first commandment with a promise—"that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.


“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord."

40% of children will go to bed tonight in a home where the natural father does not reside.


THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY TODAY:

60% of children will at one point in their life live in a single parent family.



50% of female High School Seniors believe that having a child outside of marriage is acceptable and now 1/3 of all children are born out of wedlock.



The rearing and or adoption of children amongst gay partners is on the rise.



One out of two marriages end in divorce, and over 70% of those who divorce re-marry, and 70% of those who re-marry divorce again.



Divorce is seen as an unavoidable rite of passage in life and many young people are believing in “serial marriage”, different marriage partners for each phase of adult life.



1. Christ Centered:


THE 3 C’s:

A. Life Contentment Does Not Come

Through Marriage. Life Contentment Comes Through

Christ.


THE 3 C’s:

B. QUESTION: Who or What Defines Your Identity? (Ephesians 2:10; Job 10:8)


THE 3 C’s:

C. REMEMBER THIS: Christ Gives

Us the Power to Do What We

Cannot Do On Our Own.


THE 3 C’s:


“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me."


“I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through Him who gives me strength."

2. Sacrificial Commitment


THE 3 C’s:


“Greater love has not one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."

. . . LOVE ALWAYS:

A. Protects (I Corinthians 13:7)


THE 3 C’s:

. . . LOVE ALWAYS:

B. Trusts (I Corinthians 13:7)


THE 3 C’s:

. . . LOVE ALWAYS:

C. Hopes (I Corinthians 13:7)


THE 3 C’s:

. . . LOVE ALWAYS:

D. Perseveres (I Corinthians 13:7)


THE 3 C’s:

3. Open Communication


THE 3 C’s:


“. . . everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."

KEY: A Safe Environment Is Necessary for Open Honest Communication.


THE 3 C’s:

•Touch


THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES:

•Presence



•Words



•Gifts



•Service




Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV

Family Matters

three ingredients for baking a good tasting marriage ephesians 5:21-6:4 niv family matters

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