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BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLCerschienen am03.11.2020
Learn how to love like you've been loved.   Called 2 Love: A 40-day Journey into Marriage Intimacy shows you how to love like you've been loved. You can experience deepened closeness, freedom to share all of yourself, healing for disappointments and hurts, skills to pass on a legacy of love, and clarity on how God can involve you and your marriage in Kingdom plans. Join authors David and Teresa Ferguson and Steve and Barbara Uhlmann as they share the ups and downs of their relationships and 100+ years of marriage wisdom through the power of story. Using vulnerability, encounters with Jesus, and Scripture reflection, you will learn how to write your own marriage story as well as develop adequacy in sharing the gospel with others. This book is an excellent resource for: • a personal marriage devotional • a 6-week study for small groups or classes • a workshop for marriage enrichment • a mentoring program for other couples   Experience God's love for you and live out that love with your spouse.

Dr. David and Teresa Ferguson have served more than twenty denominations and para-church ministries through pastoral care, training strategies, and resource development with the Great Commandment Network. They reside in Austin, Texas. Steve and Barbara Uhlmann are the founders of the Agape Project, The Intentional Community, and the Called 2 Love Initiative. They reside in Scottsdale, Arizona.mehr
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KlappentextLearn how to love like you've been loved.   Called 2 Love: A 40-day Journey into Marriage Intimacy shows you how to love like you've been loved. You can experience deepened closeness, freedom to share all of yourself, healing for disappointments and hurts, skills to pass on a legacy of love, and clarity on how God can involve you and your marriage in Kingdom plans. Join authors David and Teresa Ferguson and Steve and Barbara Uhlmann as they share the ups and downs of their relationships and 100+ years of marriage wisdom through the power of story. Using vulnerability, encounters with Jesus, and Scripture reflection, you will learn how to write your own marriage story as well as develop adequacy in sharing the gospel with others. This book is an excellent resource for: • a personal marriage devotional • a 6-week study for small groups or classes • a workshop for marriage enrichment • a mentoring program for other couples   Experience God's love for you and live out that love with your spouse.

Dr. David and Teresa Ferguson have served more than twenty denominations and para-church ministries through pastoral care, training strategies, and resource development with the Great Commandment Network. They reside in Austin, Texas. Steve and Barbara Uhlmann are the founders of the Agape Project, The Intentional Community, and the Called 2 Love Initiative. They reside in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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DAY 28

Sharing Your Week 4 Journey

He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way.

PSALM 25:9

Marriage Staff Meeting

The following experiential exercises are practical demonstrations of how to acknowledge your imperfections and need for growth. These exercises also serve as a practical demonstration of accountability to God and to your spouse.

Share Your Personal Story

Reflect on your work from the previous day´s readings and be prepared to share them with your partner.

Embrace gratitude for God´s forgiveness. Share these words with one another.

I have claimed 1 John 1:9 and confessed to God the ways in which I have hurt you and our marriage. I´m grateful because the Father has forgiven me and restored me. My experience with God was meaningful because ...

Embrace the truth.

There´s nothing that you could do to earn the gift of God´s Son. Every one of us must conclude: it´s only by his grace. It is only God´s unconditional love that provided the gift of Calvary and the forgiveness that is available to us. Allow the Holy Spirit to touch your heart with praise and gratitude that God has freely given the gift of his Son. His forgiveness for you is guaranteed because of Calvary.

Take the next few moments to reflect on what you have done or could do to deserve God´s forgiveness. Embrace God´s truth together and then share a few moments of prayer with your spouse. Pray silently or out loud.

God, when I consider the undeserved gift of your Son and your unfailing love and complete and constant forgiveness just for me, my heart is touched with ...

Next, pray silently or aloud. Tell the Lord that you are willing to be a good steward of his forgiveness-one who faithfully forgives others as you have been forgiven. Tell him that you are ready to let go of anger and ask his Spirit to empower more reconciliation and peace for your marriage.

God, because you have forgiven me, I want to be forgiving to my spouse. I´m ready to let go of any anger I might have. I´m asking your Spirit to bring more reconciliation, peace, and forgiveness to our marriage. I am ready to do my part.
P8. A Spirit-empowered disciple lives in peaceful relationships and works to help others live in God´s peace as well.
Share Your Marriage Stories

During this Marriage Staff Meeting, you and your spouse will experience several distinct Bible verses.

Doing the Bible

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

JAMES 5:16

Take the next moments to share your confessions with your partner, request forgiveness, and pray for God to heal the hurt. It is important to use the following outline as you share your confession. Here´s an example of what your confession to your spouse might sound like. Use the sentence prompts just as they are given below. (For example: wrong is much better to say than sorry since to confess means to agree with God, and God has said these things are wrong.)

Be specific: I´ve seen how I have hurt you deeply by _________________________

Demonstrate understanding: I know you must have felt _______________________

Admit wrong: It was wrong of me to __________________________________

Request Forgiveness: Will you forgive me? ______________________________

-When your spouse asks for forgiveness, remember: forgiveness is a choice, not primarily a feeling. The question is not Do you feel like forgiving? but Will you? Will you release or drop the offense? As you make this choice to forgive, new feelings will come.

-When your spouse asks for forgiveness, remember: forgiveness is an issue of stewardship. It is really God´s forgiveness that you have received and are now being asked to share with your spouse. Just as God has forgiven you, you are called to love the same.

As you express forgiveness for one another, you will be doing the Bible.

Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

EPHESIANS 4:31-32

After all needed confessions have been shared, pray for your spouse. Ask God to heal your partner´s hurt.

God, please heal my husband´s/wife´s hurt. I know he/she is hurting because of my ______________________ and my ______________________. Lord, please heal his/her heart and change me.

Repeat the confession process above as many times as needed. Claim this promise of healing as you do his Book: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed (James 5:16).

Practical Suggestions for Your Times of Confession:

After each person has shared his or her points of confession, it can also be important to ask:

Are there any other significant hurts that need my confession? Please share them with me so I can apologize and ask your forgiveness.

This question allows your spouse to share hurts you may not be aware of but still need your confession. Use the same confession outline above to respond to what your partner shares.

Finally, there are times when it may also be important to gain a deeper understanding of your partner´s hurt. Further understanding the dimensions of your partner´s pain strengthens the healing in your relationship. It´s in these times you will want to offer comfort and confession. Here are some helpful hints for this kind of conversation.

-Set aside an unhurried amount of time and provide a safe place for your spouse to talk. Offer to listen to any of the hurt that your partner would like to share and be ready to give words of comfort and compassion-then confession as needed. Here´s what it might sound like to begin this conversation.

I have a renewed desire to bring healing to the ways I have hurt you. I know that I have hurt you by . . .

I want to really understand your pain, so I would like for you to take as long as you need to share with me how I have hurt you. I want to know how you feel.

-Give your spouse plenty of time to share hurts that need to be addressed.

As your spouse is sharing, allow the Comforter to move your heart with compassion. When it´s time to respond, say words that are filled with tenderness, such as:

I´m so sad that I hurt you in these ways.

I deeply regret how painful my actions were for you.

I now understand more about the pain I caused. I can understand how you would feel

I can see how I was wrong to ... (share more confessions as needed). Will you forgive me?

I am praying that God will remind me of the hurt you´ve felt, that he will change me, and that you will come to trust me not to hurt you in these ways again.

You and your partner will experience the blessing of living one more Bible verse. You´ll be doing Romans 12:15 and James 5:16.

Weep with those who weep.

ROMANS 12:15

Share Your Reflections from Your Jesus Stories

Imagine Jesus running off the front porch as he did for the prodigal. Remember that Jesus welcomes you and celebrates you!

When I imagine the picture of Jesus running to me, embracing me with words of compassion, and celebrating over me, I ...

As a final exercise with your partner, take some time to pray together. Pray a special kind of prayer: a perfect love prayer. In the moments of your prayer time, allow some of God´s perfect love he has placed in you to begin to cast out a measure of your spouse´s fear.

Doing the Bible

Before you begin your prayer, remember the list of the Top Ten Relational Needs. Given the confession that you shared and the conversations you´ve had recently with your spouse, how might God want you to change? Might he want you to become more:

-Accepting

-Affectionate

-Attentive

-Appreciative

-Approving

-Compassionate

-Encouraging

-Respectful

-Supportive

-Secure-giving

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.

1 JOHN 4:18 NASB

After you´ve quietly reflected and heard from the Lord, begin praying with your spouse.

Pray out loud and allow your spouse...
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