| Event: Couples Bible Study
Day: Monday Date: 09 December 2002 Time: 7:30 PM Place: Walt & Rosie's Home http://www.waltokon.com/Asian.html Our study is taken from the Home Builders Couples Series by Dennis Rainey.
Ice Breaker Question: Do you really know what your spouse would like for Christmas? ========================================================================= Title: Barriers to Communications In Your Marriage, from the Home Builders Couples Series by Dr. Gary and Barbara Rosberg. ========================= Our Study Book:
2002
These Six sessions are designed to bring husbands and wives closer to
each other and to God. You will recognize and understand the barriers
to good communication; learn ways to make your relationship a priority;
discover practical steps for resolving conflict; and increase spiritual
intimacy as you seek God together. The leader for each session
is
HomeBuilders Principles
Make a Date: Do this As a couple first: ----------------------------------------- After taking your Make a Date Test, answer these questions: How easy is it for your to acknowledge your barriers to effective communications? Can you now define some of the barriers to effective communications that you can personal remove? In what ways to you both complement each other in strengthening communications? In what ways to you both contribute to each other in allowing barriers to exist? What areas of improvement would you like to focus? Name them:
What is the one thing you can do this coming week to overcome a communications
barrier?
Scripture on communications: Eph 4:14-16 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Eph 4:25-28
Eph 5:3-7
Eph 5:15-20
Mathew Henry Comment: Eph 5:18-20 2. Instead of being filled with wine, he exhorts them to be filled with the Spirit. Those who are full of drink are not likely to be full of the Spirit; and therefore this duty is opposed to the former sin. The meaning of the exhortation is that men should labor for a plentiful measure of the graces of the Spirit, that would fill their souls with great joy, strength, and courage, which things sensual men expect their wine should inspire them with. We cannot be guilty of any excess in our endeavors after these: nay, we ought not to be satisfied with a little of the Spirit, but to be aspiring after measures, so as to be filled with the Spirit. Now by this means we shall come to understand what the will of the Lord is; for the Spirit of God is given as a Spirit of wisdom and of understanding. And because those who are filled with the Spirit will be carried out in acts of devotion, and all the proper expressions of it, therefore the apostle exhorts, 3. To sing unto the Lord, v. 19. Drunkards are wont to sing obscene and profane songs. The heathens, in their Bacchanalia, used to sing hymns to Bacchus, whom they called the god of wine. Thus they expressed their joy; but the joy of Christians should express itself in songs of praise to their God. In these they should speak to themselves in their assemblies and meetings together, for mutual edification. By psalms may be meant David's psalms, or such composures as were fitly sung with musical instruments. By hymns may be meant such others as were confined to matter of praise, as those of Zacharias, Simeon, etc. Spiritual songs may contain a greater variety of matter, doctrinal, prophetical, historical, etc. Observe here, (1.) The singing of psalms and hymns is a gospel ordinance: it is an ordinance of God, and appointed for his glory. (2.) Though Christianity is an enemy to profane mirth, yet it encourages joy and gladness, and the proper expressions of these in the professors of it. God's people have reason to rejoice, and to sing for joy. They are to sing and to make melody in their hearts; not only with their voices, but with inward affection, and then their doing this will be as delightful and acceptable to God as music is to us: and it must be with a design to please him, and to promote his glory, that we do this; and then it will be done to the Lord. 4. Thanksgiving is another duty that the apostle exhorts to, v. 20. We are appointed to sing psalms, etc., for the expression of our thankfulness to God; but, though we are not always singing, we should never want a disposition for this duty, as we never want matter for it. We must continue it throughout the whole course of our lives; and we should give thanks for all things; not only for spiritual blessings enjoyed, and eternal ones expected (for what of the former we have in hand, and for what of the other we have in hope), but for temporal mercies too; not only for our comforts, but also for our sanctified afflictions; not only for what immediately concerns ourselves, but for the instances of God's kindness and favor to others also. It is our duty in every thing to give thanks unto God and the Father, to God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father in him, in whose name we are to offer up all our prayers, and praises, and spiritual services, that they may be acceptable to God. (from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1991 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.)
Session #2. Making Your Relationship a Priority:: Harris and Madeline Huckabee will lead Session #2. We will take Prayer Request: Here are this week's prayer requests: Walt & Rosie . . .
2). Pray for Cherish Lee who has taken the GC exam for nursing and waiting for her test results. Pray that she passes. 3). Pray for
"Faith Unlimited" who have completed their singing tour of the United
States and are returning to their home in the Philippines.
4). Pray for Lien Tsans who is having a baby in a month.
Pray for the health of the Baby and Mother.
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In His Service, Wall and Rosie
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