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Series: Once Upon a Marriage
Chuck Booher
Genesis 2:18-25
Time I broke up with Pam…
And that night she was coming over for dinner.
There are some myths when it comes to marriage that we need to do away with…
One is that 50% of marriages end in divorce
That is not true and has never been true
Interestingly divorce has been in decline for the last three decades
NY Times: Dec. 2, 2014
Christians divorce at the same rate as Non-Christians
Protestants are 35% less likely to divorce
53% of Very Happy Couples agree with the statement that God is at the Center of their marriage
Shaunti Feldhahn: The Surprising Secrets of Very Happy Marriages.
Christianity Today Feb. 14, 2014
USA Today (3/14/2011) Regular consistent Church attendance was the number one factor in couple who do not divorce.
God wants you to have a happy marriage…
Marriage was created in the Garden of Eden and it was a key factor in that being paradise
Marriage is to be a taste of heaven on earth
Better together than apart
There are four principles that lead to practices for you to have a marriage that is heaven on earth
Miss any of these and your marriage will suffer and your life will suffer
A glaring problem in any of these means your marriage will be a prison you want to escape from and hell on earth.
Genesis 2:18-25 (NASB)
18 Then the LORD God said, ''It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.''
19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Plan of God
Always God's plan to create man, woman and marriage
Not good for man to be alone
Adam was in a perfect relationship with God
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Series: Once Upon a Marriage
Chuck Booher
Genesis 2:18-25
Time I broke up with Pam…
And that night she was coming over for dinner.
There are some myths when it comes to marriage that we need to do away with…
One is that 50% of marriages end in divorce
That is not true and has never been true
Interestingly divorce has been in decline for the last three decades
NY Times: Dec. 2, 2014
Christians divorce at the same rate as Non-Christians
Protestants are 35% less likely to divorce
53% of Very Happy Couples agree with the statement that God is at the Center of their marriage
Shaunti Feldhahn: The Surprising Secrets of Very Happy Marriages.
Christianity Today Feb. 14, 2014
USA Today (3/14/2011) Regular consistent Church attendance was the number one factor in couple who do not divorce.
God wants you to have a happy marriage…
Marriage was created in the Garden of Eden and it was a key factor in that being paradise
Marriage is to be a taste of heaven on earth
Better together than apart
There are four principles that lead to practices for you to have a marriage that is heaven on earth
Miss any of these and your marriage will suffer and your life will suffer
A glaring problem in any of these means your marriage will be a prison you want to escape from and hell on earth.
Genesis 2:18-25 (NASB)
18 Then the LORD God said, ''It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.''
19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
Plan of God
Always God's plan to create man, woman and marriage
Not good for man to be alone
Adam was in a perfect relationship with God
...
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