Intimate Marriage: Leader's Guide

By Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III

Book Overview

The Church Should be the place where marriae is the strongest - but again and again both statistics and personal experience reveal that our marriages have all of the same problems faced by the rest of the world. How can we redeem our marriages and remake them so that they form our souls and reflect the glory of God? This leader's guide is for church leaders-small group leaders, pastors and worship leaders-who want to have an impact on the marriages in their church. This guide will walk you through how to put together the materials in the Intimate Marriage Series to create a powerful marriage emphasis experience for the whole church (even singles). If you are leading a small group of married couples, using this guide will extend your confidence to serve as a group leader by helping you avoid some pitfalls and land mines that are unique to a couples group. This guide will identify some key principles for helping people grow, what is required to be a good leader, how to run a fruitful group with agreed-upon goals, and how to deal with the unexpected with grace and wisdom. You'll also find some great Bible study resources to take you deeper into the topic of each Bible study session. If you are a pastor, you will find resources in these pages to guide you through a churchwide marriage emphasis. You'll find a vision for planting small groups of laypeople who can support and encourage each other in their marriages. You will be helped by the notes on the Bible texts in the series. In addition, we provide a series of sermons to give you ideas of how you can preach through a series on marriage (with sensitivity to how you can include singles as well). If you are a worship or drama leader, you will find a drama that you can freely reproduce and perform in your church to further illustrate the key themes of this series. We need each other. As couples deepen their relationships with other couples, they will build up the resources they need to grow the kind of marriages that last, that challenge them to personal growth and that draw those around them to Christ. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830821295
• ISBN13: 9780830821297
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: InterVarsity Press
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 10.0"