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Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage

Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage. Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV. Family Matters. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage.

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Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage

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  1. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV Family Matters

  2. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage “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.   Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV

  3. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansingher 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. Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV

  4. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage 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. Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV

  5. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage 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.   Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV

  6. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord."   Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV

  7. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY TODAY: • 40% of children will go to bed tonight in a home where the natural father does not reside. Family Matters:

  8. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY TODAY: • 60% of children will at one point in their life live in a single parent family. Family Matters:

  9. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY TODAY: • 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. Family Matters:

  10. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY TODAY: • The rearing and or adoption of children amongst gay partners is on the rise. Family Matters:

  11. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY TODAY: • 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. Family Matters:

  12. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY TODAY: • 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. Family Matters:

  13. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: 1. Christ Centered: Family Matters:

  14. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: A. Life Contentment Does Not Come Through Marriage. Life Contentment Comes Through Christ. Family Matters:

  15. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: B. QUESTION: Who or What Defines Your Identity? (Ephesians 2:10; Job 10:8) Family Matters:

  16. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: C. REMEMBER THIS: Christ Gives Us the Power to Do What We Cannot Do OnOurOwn. Family Matters:

  17. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage “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."   Galatians 2:20 NIV

  18. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage “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."   Philippians 4:12b-13 NIV

  19. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: 2. Sacrificial Commitment Family Matters:

  20. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage “Greater love has not one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."   John 15:13 NIV

  21. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: . . . LOVE ALWAYS: A. Protects (I Corinthians 13:7) Family Matters:

  22. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: . . . LOVE ALWAYS: B. Trusts (I Corinthians 13:7) Family Matters:

  23. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: . . . LOVE ALWAYS: C. Hopes (I Corinthians 13:7) Family Matters:

  24. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: . . . LOVE ALWAYS: D. Perseveres (I Corinthians 13:7) Family Matters:

  25. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s: 3. Open Communication Family Matters:

  26. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage “. . . everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry."   James 1:19 NIV

  27. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE 3 C’s:  KEY: A Safe Environment Is Necessary for Open Honest Communication. Family Matters:

  28. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES: • Touch Family Matters:

  29. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES: • Presence Family Matters:

  30. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES: • Words Family Matters:

  31. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES: • Gifts Family Matters:

  32. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES: • Service Family Matters:

  33. Three Ingredients for Baking a Good Tasting Marriage Ephesians 5:21-6:4 NIV Family Matters

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