- What the longest study on human happiness found is the key to a good life: Relationships
- Me
- For us to have the kind of intimacy that God desires, we have to move from Me to We.
Mark 10:2-9 // Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 “What did Moses command you?” he replied. 4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” 5 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
- Unrealistic Expectations
- Expectation leads to pressure and pressure crushes intimacy
- Underestimated Differences
- “Marriage has a way of introducing you to yourself.” - Tim Keller
- Unmet Needs
- Unresolved Anger
- Unsafe Environment
- Unleft Parents
- Unrelenting Criticism
Proverbs 17:9 TLB // Love forgets mistakes; nagging about them parts the best of friends.
Proverbs 27:15-16 MSG // A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet; You can’t turn it off, and you can’t get away from it.
- Unrepentant Sin
- What are the bricks in YOUR wall?
1 Corinthians 13:11 // When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 // Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.
