ORDER IN THE CHURCH (26 OF 40)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:1-16
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Order in the Church (26 of 40)
Series: 1 Corinthians - And You Think You've Got Problems
Jeff Schreve
1 Corinthians 11:1-16
How many believe the old statement that opposites attract, can I see your hand? How people would say, ''I'm married to an opposite?'' Anybody married to an opposite. Okay. Opposites do attract, and most of the time, almost all of the time, we're going to marry somebody opposite from us. Because if you find somebody just like you; you don't really want to spend the rest of your life with you. You want to find somebody different from you. I found that when Debbie and I started going out and fell in love. Debbie is very different from me. And you know one of the things I loved about her, still to this day, love about her? They say about opposites, ''Opposites attract and then they attack,'' because they're so opposite. But one of the things that I've always loved about her, Debbie is so organized. She is so ordered and so organized. And she can go into anything that's messed up and she can get it just in good order and everything in its place. And she ran our home that way, especially when the kids were little. She was just really, really good at that. And I loved it because that's not my longest and strongest, organization and going into a messy room and figuring out how to put it all in neat little piles. I just put it in piles, you know. She's not a piler. She's just throwing. ''We don't need this. Don't need this. Don't need this.'' Take my clothes out to the garage sale. It's like, ''It still has the tag on it. I've never even worn that. You bought it for me last week and we're already garage-selling it.'' And she's like, ''I forgot!'' That's just the way she is. She doesn't like clutter. Well, I asked our kids one day when they were still living at home and still in high school, and I said, ''What do you think? If something terrible happened, what would be harder - losing your mom or losing your dad?'' And they said, ''Well, dad, we ...
Series: 1 Corinthians - And You Think You've Got Problems
Jeff Schreve
1 Corinthians 11:1-16
How many believe the old statement that opposites attract, can I see your hand? How people would say, ''I'm married to an opposite?'' Anybody married to an opposite. Okay. Opposites do attract, and most of the time, almost all of the time, we're going to marry somebody opposite from us. Because if you find somebody just like you; you don't really want to spend the rest of your life with you. You want to find somebody different from you. I found that when Debbie and I started going out and fell in love. Debbie is very different from me. And you know one of the things I loved about her, still to this day, love about her? They say about opposites, ''Opposites attract and then they attack,'' because they're so opposite. But one of the things that I've always loved about her, Debbie is so organized. She is so ordered and so organized. And she can go into anything that's messed up and she can get it just in good order and everything in its place. And she ran our home that way, especially when the kids were little. She was just really, really good at that. And I loved it because that's not my longest and strongest, organization and going into a messy room and figuring out how to put it all in neat little piles. I just put it in piles, you know. She's not a piler. She's just throwing. ''We don't need this. Don't need this. Don't need this.'' Take my clothes out to the garage sale. It's like, ''It still has the tag on it. I've never even worn that. You bought it for me last week and we're already garage-selling it.'' And she's like, ''I forgot!'' That's just the way she is. She doesn't like clutter. Well, I asked our kids one day when they were still living at home and still in high school, and I said, ''What do you think? If something terrible happened, what would be harder - losing your mom or losing your dad?'' And they said, ''Well, dad, we ...
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