Marriage Class

Please come join us for our marriage class that begins tonight at 7pm. Here is the opening paragraph of the notes to get you hooked!  Just kidding.  But it does set out the agenda for the class to get you interested.

The premise of this ‘class’ is that ultimately marriage is not about you.  It was not made for you, nor was it ultimately designed for you. Our culture with its Oprah-laden and Dr. Phil mentality is telling you just the opposite.  They are telling you how to have fulfilling marriages, and how to get along with your spouse so that you can find enjoyment in your marriage. In addition, our culture is even now moving away from marriage altogether.  Our culture is now not even bothering with the whole marriage thing.  They argue that marriage just complicates life, since, as they think, we are not going to be together forever. A wrong view of marriage has even infiltrated the American evangelical church.  Here I want to be careful so as not to offend many, but most of the popular Christian marriage books out there are using God to make your marriage better, rather than teaching how we are to use our marriages for God’s designs.  In these marriage Christian self-help books there is a subtle shift away from God-centered to self-centered marriages, even though they use the Bible!

Marriage has a much grander purpose and design that we realize. Now, please understand that marriage definitely involves us, and when viewed from a correct biblical perspective brings us joy and satisfaction.  However, marriage is ultimately about God, not us.  Many of us would probably mentally assent to such a statement, yet we either fail to appropriate this understanding in our marriages or fail to understand how our marriages are all about God.  This class, therefore, will be centered on how are marriages are to be God-centered, and, then, specifically show how the Gospel informs us how to have God-centered marriages