7 topics every couple should talk about before getting MARRIED.

• MONEY. Prov 22:7; Eph 4:28.
  • Money is the #1 reason given for divorce.
• AUTHORITY in the home & in life. Eph 5:23; 1Tim 2:12-15
  • Child rearing. Eph 6:1-4;
  • Deu 6:7,20; Prov 13:24
  • 1Cor 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
• RELIGION. Eph 4:4; 1:22-23; 1Cor 1:10
  • 1Cor 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
  • 2Cor 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• RELATIONS & RELATIONSHIPS.
  • Intimacy 1Cor 7:1-4.
  • Heb 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
  • Friends. 1Cor 5:6; Gal 5:9.
    • Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• IN-LAWS. Mat 19:5-6.
  • Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
• EXPECTATIONS of each other. Goals. Rev 21:1-8; Phil 3:14.
  • Most sorrows come from UNSPOKEN, UNREALIZED, or UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS.
• DISTRACTIONS. Directions.  Mark 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Spencer is an evangelist for the church of Christ on Franklin and Juniper in Borger Texas.

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