Love & Marriage – Building a Lasting Love

1. 1 Corinthians 13 states that love is patient and is kind.  Where have you drawn a line in your heart where a person in your life is no longer worthy of you showing kindness? Where have you determined that a cold shoulder is justified?

2. 1 Corinthians 13 also says love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Where are you tempted to avoid the hard conversation because of the inconvenience it may cause you, or the rejection you might face from the person on the other end?

3. 1 Corinthians 13 continues with love does not envy or boast… love is not arrogant.  Do you find yourself unable to rejoice in what others have because you feel it’s unfair that you don’t have it?

4. 1 Corinthians 13 makes a tough statement when it says love is not irritable or resentful.  Do you find yourself rehearsing someone’s offenses against you over and over in your head, even after you’ve supposedly forgiven them?”  If so, is that an indicator that there’s a record of wrongs that hasn’t been erased yet from your heart?

5. Was there one part of the sermon that stood out most to you?

6. Ephesians 5:33 says, “However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband”.  It appears that men and women speak two different languages.  Men speak the language of respect and women speak the language of love.  Have you discovered this to be true and in what way do you practice being “multilingual”?