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Marriage. I
can’t say that word without thinking of the
amusing Peter Cook from the movie the Princes Bride - “Mawage”… that dweem wivin a dweem…” Not
every marriage is a dream, is it? What makes a marriage successful, loving and
long-lasting? A Google hunt, on the topic of successful marriages netted me 14+
million sites & opinions. Groups like American Psychological Association,
PsyCentral, Focus on the Family, The Huffington Post, NY Times, the list goes on,
all weighed in on how to have a winning marriage. Fourteen million opinions! On
Amazon, there are more than 14,192 publications devoted to telling you how to
have a great & successful marital relationship. Yikes, who can read that
much?! Even with all these resources, I’m still curious … what’s the recipe for
a Godly, biblically based,
successful marriage? Consider these four ideas to help establish a better
equilibrium in a relationship:
- Be on Mission Together – Or, put another way: be on the same page in life socially, economically and spiritually
- Grow Together in Christ - Your marriage ought to produce: love joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility and self-control
- Serve God Together – “…Let love make you serve one another…”
- Dream Together – The American Dream and God’s dream are two very different issues; Choose the rat race or God’s race, your choice...Pastor Keith #minmchurch