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Implications of the Marriage Picture

Two weeks ago I talked about how our marriages reflected the Gospel, specifically Christ headship over the church and the church’s submission to that headship. I ended by mentioning that this reflection – this echo – paints a picture that can preach to our children. In fact, I believe our marriages have 3 audiences.

God

The first audience is the one that created marriage. God uses our marriage to teach us about Him, about love, about ourselves. In a way, I suppose that makes us the audience.

Our Children

I think this is where our marriages really shine (or shadow) the gospel. Knowing that our marriage reflects the relationship of Christ and his church, we, as husband and wife, can reflect one of two ways:
Reflecting the Gospel »

Tools for the Hungry

Last week I mentioned that I would share some of the implications of our marriage’s preaching to others – especially to out children. However, I’m going to put that off until next week. This week, I want to share a resource with you that I think may be helpful for you and your children.

Last year I had the opportunity to review The Action Bible. The commercial for the this Bible shows a child running home from school and dashing to his room because he wants to dive into this book. While I thought that may be a bit of an exaggeration, I found that my son did pretty much the same thing – he loved reading the stories…so much so that he pulled out his full bible and began comparing the two versions.

When I preached a few weeks ago I mentioned that one of the main signs of a converted heart was a growing hunger for God. I also said that is hard to see. I want my kids to be in the Word, to fall in love with it, to have it oozing from them. I think the Action Bible helps bring that to life for them. While their hunger is still hard to measure, it is reassuring to see them desire to read the stories of faith.
My Thoughts on the Action Bible Handbook »

The Marriage Picture

Last week I pointed out that marriage was a living breathing picture of the Gospel and that our children were a primary audience of that picture therefore our marriages preach the Gospel to our children.

Let me dive into that a little further.

Marriage as a picture of the Gospel

Ephesians 5:22-33 is a great place to see this relationship clearly, specifically verse 23, “For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior” and verse 25, “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” These two verses clearly point out the analogy of the husband as Christ and the wife as the Body.
Addressing the hurdle »

The Value of Family

This coming weekend I have the privilege of preaching in the main service at church. I’ll be exploring why family is important, not only in light of our home life, but why it’s important to the Church at large.
Basically, it boils down to the gospel.
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Meeting Needs

A few weeks ago as I talked about the core issues in family leadership I mentioned that there were deep needs in each spouse that need to be met as we try to live out the biblical relationship of husband and wife. At times, our words can be the same but have vastly different meanings…

Companionship
Husbands need someone to do recreational things with. When the wife can fill this role, the relationship will grow. Wives, too, need companionship but for them it’s not recreational, it’s relational. This means husbands need to listen. Listen not simply with the thought of how do I help but more with the thought of finding out more about who your wife is and what makes her tick.
Meet the other needs…

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