NBFamilies are working to discover providential opportunities where - traditional parents, single parents, grand parents, step parents, foster parents - can experience God’s life changing presence in their homes.
Let this sink in:
- Our kid’s hearts are being shaped by observing our marriages.
- Our kid’s faith is being influenced by observing how we treat each other as husband and wife.
- Our kid’s faith, their ability to trust, their sense of safety and security, is either being bolstered or being destroyed every day, as they watch us.
- Since marriage is a metaphor for God’s love for His church, (Ephesians 5:25-32) what are our kids learning as they study how we relate to one another?
- Week #1: - Our Kids Study Us!
- Week #2 - Don’t Raise Your Voice With Me!
- Week #3 - Don’t Shut Me Out!
- Week #4 - Befriending My Spouse
- Week #5 - 10 Tips for a Successful Conversation
- Week #6 – “Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones,” but a Lack of Intimacy Will Hurt Me Too!
- Week #7 – I’m Sorry. I’m not listening!
- Week #8 - "I can't get him to open up." "She won't hush!"
- Week #9 - "Something is Wrong in My Marriage." "She won't hush!"
- Week #10 - Marriage is Under Attack!
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The bible expresses the highest value of marriage in both the Old and New Testaments, Yet modern marriage patterns place mounting stressors and, left unchanged, ultimate failure on the future :- How do have a marriage that honors God?
- How do have a marriage where both spouses feel valued and appreciated?
- How do have a marriage that raises godly children who fear the Lord?
- Emotionally intelligent couples understand how to get along with each other.
- Emotionally intelligent couples know how to honor and respect one another.
- Emotionally intelligent couples realize that they can direct their future with the proper responses and actions toward each other.
Ephesians 5:25-28 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.When it comes to doing marriage with emotional intelligence the stakes are high for everybody in the family. One of the most distressing reasons that a marriage will die is that neither spouse recognizes its value until it’s too late. All too often a good marriage is taken for granted rather than offered the nurturing and respect it absolutely deserves and urgently needs. Spouses who silently choose to offer respect and nurture, only when the other spouse has earned it, are unknowingly planning a dismal future. Being unthankful, critical, neglecting your spouse, and expressing passive disrespect will wear down a spouse over time. Ultimately, the prospect of divorce will one day be seen as a solution after years of neglect, disrespect, and depreciation have taken their toll. Marriage under stress puts added wear and tear on the body, mind, and the soul. This is not the biblical aspiration for marriage.
Jesus doesn't promise you will always have perfect marriage, but He promises you can have an eternal anchor for your soul: THE GOSPEL (John 16:33). Our kids need to see what it looks like to follow Christ more than they need to hear what we say it is like to follow Christ. Parents are the models of following Christ. This is no easy task. Yet there is no better way to teach them than to show them. Our kids need to see us struggle, mess up, yet reply with gospel centered reconciliation.
Our responses to one another, must be Christ-like, God focused, and gospel centered!
- Mistakes are made,
- Grace is offered,
- Forgiveness is experienced,
- Repentance causes change and
- Mercy is enjoyed!
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| Dr. Phil Sallee, Pastor twitter.com/philsallee facebook.com/phil.sallee philsallee.info nbchurch.info nbfamilies.info |
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