Marriage and Family Final

Spring 2025- Gifford

Relationship Model

Problem areas
Relationship skills
Heart worship

Epicenter of desire and choice

Heart

Cure for a naturally wicked heart

Heart Transformation

Companionship
Completer
Covenant
Children
Collaboration

5 C’s and purposes of marriage

Covenant

Type of relationship that marriage is

Ephesians 5:22-32

Verse that says marriage is a covenant

Leave, Cleave, Weave

3 Principles of Marriage

Both partners satisfied in their spouse

Bulletproof Marriage

Genesis 19:1

Sodom and Gomorrah

Leviticus 18:22 & Leviticus 20:13

Law

Romans 1

Giving yourself over to sin

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Homosexuality is not part of the kingdom

James 1:13-15

Desires of the heart are still sinful

Genesis 19:1
Leviticus 18:22
Leviticus 20:13
Romans 1
James 1:13-15

Passages against Homosexuality

Biblical, Biological, Cultural

3 Categories of Masculinity and Femininity

When it is against Bible or Biology

When do you reject cultural expectations?

Love Defined

Choice to do good to another person which beings with the desire to please God

Masculinity

A sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for and protect women in ways appropriate to a man’s differing relationships

Femininity

a freeing disposition to affirm, receive and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman’s differing relationships; surrender out of joy

Lover, Learner, Servant- Leader

Primary responsibilities of a husband

Learner

Understand his wife and know her well; understand what is important to her

Honorer, Helper, Qualified Homemaker

Primary responsibilities of a wife

Submission

To place yourself underneath authority or leadership; umbrella illustration

Church forbidden
Talking to children about God forbidden
Asked to commit immorality
Asked to lie or cheat
Calling out sinful behavior forbidden
Asked to cover up
Asked to violate conscience

Reasons a women should not submit

Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Ezra 9-10
Matthew 5:31-32
1 Corinthians 7:10-16

Key passages on divorce

Sexual Immorality
Physical Abandonment

Biblical reasons for divorce

Be Honest
Keep Current
Attack the problem
Act, don’t react

4 Principles of communication

Glorify God
Get the log out of your own eye
Gently Restore
Go and be reconciled

4 G’s of conflict resolution

Safety
Public damage to the name of Christ
Long-term damage to relationship

When to confront

Pure & Holy
Giving
Not the basis of marriage
Equal & Reciprocal

Principles of sexual intimacy

Titus 2:3

older women, reverent in behavior, not gossips, not drunkards

Titus 2:4

older women train younger women

Titus 2:5

younger women are to have self-control, be pure, kind, submissive to husbands, working at home

1 Timothy 2:9

women are to wear respectable clothes, be modest, and have self-control

1 Timothy 2:10

women are to profess their godliness by good works

1 Timothy 2:11

women are to learn with quiet submissiveness

1 Timothy 2:12

Women are not to teach; they are to remain quiet