Covenant - marriage
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Marriage is more intimate than living together
Marriage is more intimate than living together
Marriage Covenant: Two surrendered and dependent people each making a binding agreement with God to live sacrificially with each other.
Keller: “Love needs a framework of binding obligation to make it fully what is should be. A covenant relationship is not just intimate despite being legal. It is a relationship that is more intimate because it is legal. Why would that be so? We can begin by observing that making a binding, public marriage vow to another person is an enormous act of love in and of itself. Someone says, “I love you, but we don’t need to be married,” may be saying, “I don’t love you enough to curtail my freedom for you.” The willingness to enter a binding covenant, far from stifling love, is a way of enhancing it, even supercharging it.”
Marriage Covenant: Two surrendered and dependent people each making a binding agreement with God to live sacrificially with each other.
Keller: “Love needs a framework of binding obligation to make it fully what is should be. A covenant relationship is not just intimate despite being legal. It is a relationship that is more intimate because it is legal. Why would that be so? We can begin by observing that making a binding, public marriage vow to another person is an enormous act of love in and of itself. Someone says, “I love you, but we don’t need to be married,” may be saying, “I don’t love you enough to curtail my freedom for you.” The willingness to enter a binding covenant, far from stifling love, is a way of enhancing it, even supercharging it.”
Keller: “Love needs a framework of binding obligation to make it fully what is should be. A covenant relationship is not just intimate despite being legal. It is a relationship that is more intimate because it is legal. Why would that be so? We can begin by observing that making a binding, public marriage vow to another person is an enormous act of love in and of itself. Someone says, “I love you, but we don’t need to be married,” may be saying, “I don’t love you enough to curtail my freedom for you.” The willingness to enter a binding covenant, far from stifling love, is a way of enhancing it, even supercharging it.”
Marriage Contract: Two consenting independent people in their right mind entering into a mutually beneficial agreement with each other.
Marriage Covenant: Two surrendered and dependent people each making a binding agreement with God to live sacrificially with each other.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Marriage Covenant: Two surrendered and dependent people each making a binding agreement with God to live sacrificially with each other.
Keller: “Love needs a framework of binding obligation to make it fully what is should be. A covenant relationship is not just intimate despite being legal. It is a relationship that is more intimate because it is legal. Why would that be so? We can begin by observing that making a binding, public marriage vow to another person is an enormous act of love in and of itself. Someone says, “I love you, but we don’t need to be married,” may be saying, “I don’t love you enough to curtail my freedom for you.” The willingness to enter a binding covenant, far from stifling love, is a way of enhancing it, even supercharging it.”
Marriage is meant to be mysterious
Marriage is meant to be mysterious
Marriage is meant to be mysterious
Marriage is meant to be mysterious
The mystery of oneness in marriage is a picture or analogy of Christ and the church, not the other way around. That is significant! Why? Because if our definition or execution of the institution of marriage looks or feels different from the love between Christ and the church, then we’re redefining it for our own purposes.
So if the new covenant is sealed by the blood of Jesus and we gain this sacrifice and payment of our sins to no credit of our own, undeserved, by grace, then shouldn’t our marriages within the church be defined by grace?? And given to undeserving spouses?
2. I realize that this new covenant with God is between Him and His people, the church, and we are to all be members of a diverse body of believers, defined by and rooted in the Bible, not our preferences.
3. I trust the elders to guide and the staff to lead the church as God and His scriptures instruct them.
I realize that this new covenant with God is between Him and His people, the church, and we are to all be members of a diverse body of believers, defined by and rooted in the Bible, not our preferences.
Piper: “In Christ’s relationship to the church, he is clearly seeking the transformation of his bride into something morally and spiritually beautiful. And he is seeking it at the cost of his life.”
I affirm that I will be a connected member of the body, regularly gathering with my church family for worship and regularly giving of my time, talents, and treasure for the great commission of making disciples and personally growing in Christ.
4. I affirm the importance of being a connected member of the body, regularly gathering with my church family for worship and regularly giving of my time, talents, and treasure for the great commission of making disciples and personally growing in Christ through Friendship Community Church, my local church.
Just heard someone say, "why would I stay in a loveless marriage?" Good thing Christ didn't say that to the church.
Amazing marriages have amazing grace
Amazing marriages have amazing grace
*Grace in divorce
*Grace in living together
*Grace in conflict
*But that grace can only be found in repentance.
To my single and widowed friends: “you complete me” should only be said to Jesus.” - “You amplify me and my love of Jesus,” now that is something you want to say to someone.
In fact, if you are constantly looking for someone to fill your incompleteness, you’ll always find others (and yourself) lacking.
Romance - Intimacy - Quality time - Priority - Provision - Faithfulness - Sentiment - Loyalty - all are powered by and assigned in season by God.
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1. I have and continue to surrender my life to Jesus and have been baptized as a public statement of my new life in Him under the new covenant with God.
2. I realize that this new covenant with God is between Him and His people, the church, and we are to all be members of a diverse body of believers, defined by and rooted in the Bible, not our preferences.
3. I trust the elders to guide and the staff to lead the church as God and His scriptures instruct them.
4. I affirm the importance of being a connected member of the body, regularly gathering with my church family for worship and regularly giving of my time, talents, and treasure for the great commission of making disciples and personally growing in Christ through Friendship Community Church, my local church.