COURSE: CS III A
PAPER: Marriage Covenant
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KEY POINTS | Awe at the bottom of mundane historical event Thankfulness for the covenantNew possibility in my life | TEACHING IMAGE | |
KEY QUESTIONS | 1. Is marriage man's decision or God's deed?
(push) someone else? every marriage? 2. What is awesome about the creation of a marriage? 3. How is the covenant a gift? (whether already married or not) 4. Hew is it a secondary covenant? What's the primary covenant? How do secondary covenants relate to the primary covenant? 5. What would it mean to reclaim the power of covenant for your marriage? What is the power? Where come from? What power of covenant dependent on? (not feelings or mood or historical change.) 6. Say what the covenant is in own words | PERSONAL WITNESS | Reclaiming the power of the covenant as making sacred and necessary to history, my marriage. Bonhoeffer said: "It's not your love that sustains your marriage but your marriage that sustains your love." That's a great secret many people don't know. |
CONCLUD- ING | CLOSING RITUAL | L. Let each one announce the word! C. My life is pleasing to the Lord. L. Who says so? C. I say so! L. Amen. C. Amen. | |
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BODILY EXIT | Disappearno questions |
RESEARCH CENTRUM: QUARTER II, 1973
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