A Gospel-Centered Marriage

Resources for Marriage
• I Still Do: Growing Closer and Stronger through Life’s Defining Moments by Dave Harvey
• The Meaning of Marriage: A Couples’ Devotional by Tim & Kathy Keller
• Gospel-Shaped Marriage: Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints by Chad & Emily Van Dixhoorn & Alistair Begg (Foreword)
• Reclaim Your Marriage: Grace for Wives Who Have Been Hurt by Pornography by Jenny Solomon
• Redeem Your Marriage: Hope for Husbands Who Have Hurt through Pornography by Curtis Solomon

Community Group Questions

• Read Ephesians 5:22-33 aloud.
• How is marriage seen in the contemporary American culture?
• What are some problems that are facing evangelical Christians in regards to marriage?
Genesis 2:24 says, “24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” What do we learn about marriage from this verse?
• Paul shows in Eph 5:22-33 that marriage points to the greater reality of the gospel. How would you explain this to a friend?
• As a group come up with a list of descriptions that you would give to describe what a gospel-centered marriage should look like?
• What are some challenges that couples today face? How does the gospel speak to those challenges?
Why is forgiveness so essential for marriage? Do you think it is easier or harder to forgive someone you are married to?
• How should Christians care for those who are not married? Singles, divorced, widows/widowers?
• Why is it important to pray for marriages? Whose marriages ought we pray for?
• Review memory verse
• Please pray with and for one another

Resources Used to Prepare This Message & Other Helpful Resources
Peter O’Brien, Pillar NT Commentary
Bryan Chapell, Reformed Expository Commentary
Tony Merida, Exalting Jesus in Ephesians
N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone
Stephen Motyer, Free to Be One
ESV Expositorary Commetnary