Love and War

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Week 1: Hope and Vision



This week starts our study. We had a great session together and enjoyed fellowship with one another. If you were not able to attend, we missed you and hope that you are doing well. we look forward to seeing you next week. The task for this week was to read chapters 1&2 and that's what our discussions were based on. Here are a few things we summarized and a couple prompts for discussion in the comment section.


Marriage is a shocking thing to enter in to. Most of us have no idea how difficult marriage will be until we enter into it. We all have different things that are important to us in marriage and different expectations that we bring with us to the table. A key to living a fulfilled marriage is understanding the expectations that we have as well as our spouse's expectations. When we can identify the desires of our hearts, we can begin to work together towards a common goal of a fulfilled marriage.

Some questions for discussion this week. Please feel free to be open and honest in discussions while staying positive in order to promote a sense of caring community among us.

Answer any/all of these. don't be shy. 
 
1.  What do you want to get out of your marriage and how have your desires changed over the years?

2. Share a moment in your marriage where you were not meeting your spouse's needs. How did that affect them?

3. When dating/courting your spouse, what were your expectations and how have they changed since being married?


Friday, July 25, 2014

Intro

Welcome to our study of Love & War. This blog will be used as a way to summarize weeks that you are not able to make it out to the study. Please feel free to comment and start discussions. We would like to make this area an extension of the weekly meetings so people don't feel like they missed anything. Looking forward to an exciting 8 weeks with all of you!


-Ben & Shannon