Use this discussion time to enhance your own marriage, as well as be encouraged and challenged in the ways of self-sacrificial love in every relationship you have.
Thaw
- What are some wedding traditions you have experienced from you town tradition or background that are interesting or unique?
- What most stayed with you from Sunday?
- If you were an alien at your first typical earth wedding in the USA, what would you think were the main points to report back to your tentacled leader?
- What does your previous answer have to do with what we'd say the desired outcome of a marriage is?
Read
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-8
- Thoughts and impressions?
- Why do you think this passages gets read at so many weddings?
- Knowing this love ("agapeo") isn't exclusively romantic, but has to do with any one giving themselves to another, self-sacrificially, what do you think we could learn from Paul here?
Discuss
- Why do single people and married people often feel awkward around each other, and what can be done about that?
- Why have we all become bad at longterm commitment, and what can be done about that?
- What happens when our own happiness becomes the primary goal in a relationship?
- What happens when we fear being single or invalidated and so use the other to assuage those fears?
Read
- Mark 10:8-9
- Thoughts and impressions?
- The imagery of joined together, in the actual Greek of Mark 10, depicts two animals yoked together not only for their own good, but for the good of the One at work behind them. In what kinds of ways can married couples bless not only themselves, but in being yoked together, become a blessing to the world?
Apply
- In what ways can this group be a blessing to its married couples, as well as to the single people, honoring the strength and significance in both?
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