Wednesday, October 1, 2014

A Gospel-Centered Marriage


Our church is beginning a new series this week called "A Gospel-Centered Marriage." The series has been largely born out of a crisis of marriage that our own church is facing right now. Don't get me wrong, marriage is in crisis in our culture & has been for some time but we have felt the weight of this crisis more recently in our own church family. For the last few weeks, about once a week, I've talked to someone in a struggling or ending marriage. It's heartbreaking.

In response to this we are launching a muti-week series on marriage that will culminate in a marriage emphasis day on Sunday, November 23rd. We are going to spend several weeks looking at Epheisans 5:22-33, the most famous, lengthy, & meaty passage on marriage in the Bible. In this series we hope to get at the Biblical understanding of marriage, the purpose of marriage, the power & motivation of marriage, as well as the origin of marriage.

If you know someone who needs this series, please invite them. This series is for struggling marriages. We hope that the Lord will strengthen their marriage through his word. This series is for broken marriages. We are praying for God to heal & mend marriages. This series is for healthy marriages. We are praying that this series will encourage those who are doing well to continue to seek God in their marriage. And last of all, this series is for singles. What?! A marriage series for singles? Yes! Why? Because we hope to paint such a clear picture of what Christian marriage is according to the Bible that it saves marriages before they begin. We hope it will shape dating habits & how singles choose their spouse. We hope it will change the way that singles view marriage so that everything they do before marriage will be done in the context of a future spouse they are living in covenant with.

So please, invite anyone you know to come to this series no matter who they are. We are asking God to meet us & change us & save our marriages both present & future.

Make your attendance a priority during this series. Postpone weekend trips & time away. Come every week if at all possible. Give your marriage the attention it needs. God help us. 

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