Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Auxano and marriage!!!

Auxano last night was awesome! The largest crowd we have had at a cool 40 people.
The topic that we addressed we a big one, sex and marriage. The night started off as usual with worship, scripture memorization and then the word. I was blessed to be able to bring a short talk on both sex and marriage and while I was talking we had the group write questions and statements about sex and marriage down and then hand them in to be discussed as a group.
It was amazing the amount of good feedback and comments that we had from the group and we were able to talk about a lot of things that you could not usually discuss sunday morning. We went about 30 minutes over time to make sure all the questions were answered thoroughly.
Sex and marriage is a huge topic and it is near and dear to my heart. While we were in Brazil the focus of barbie and I was for young men and women to see what it is to have a godly marriage. Most of out time out side of the scheduled evangelical outreaches was spent talking with young adults about dating and marriage. Barbie and I now celebrating three years of marriage are happy to say we are still in the honey moon stage of our marriage and we intend to be there till Jesus comes back or one of us dies. Yep. We both recognize that we have been given huge grace in this area of our lives and we are excited to share our experience with people.
some of the resources that we have found helpful are,
-The peasant princess sermon series, found on line at marshillchurch.org
-The first 90 days of marriage, by Eric and Leslie Ludy
-God, Marriage and Family by Andreas J. Kostenberger.
I encourage everyone, single and married to look into these things and prepare your self for marriage. It is one of the greatest gifts that God has given us and is the second most important decision you will ever make.
#1, Who is my God?
#2, Who will my spouse be?

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