For better or for worse, all of our ideas about marriage were influenced by something.
Marriage Myths:
- If you wish it, it will get better.
- Perfect people exist.
- Your love can make someone better.
- People have to want to be better.
- Physical affection can sustain us.
- Physical affection should be a benefit of a solid relationship, not the reason for one.
1 John 3:18 // Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
- Love is not a feeling, it’s an action.
- It’s not enough to say it, you have to show it, too.
John 15:12 // My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- Love is not a feeling, it’s a choice.
- Even when I don’t feel love, I choose love.
John 15:13 // Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Ephesians 5:25 // Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
- Love is not a feeling, it’s a sacrifice.
- True love will always require a sacrifice.
