We are glad and hopeful for a new opportunity that the Lord seems to be opening up for us...
We will begin soon meeting weekly (for just 3 weeks to start, to see how it goes) with our tutors- the girl who has tutored me and her boyfriend who tutors my hubby- for something like premarital counseling. (You can see their pic on our family blog, posted earlier in Oct.) They have been dating three years and broke up a short while ago for just a few days, but it was difficult enough that they expressed interest in meeting with us to talk about their relationship.
So how do we counsel pre-Christians to love each other selflessly? 1 Corinthians 13 is simply NOT accessible to us or to them apart from Christ. But we’re still planning to start there and try to point out our total inability to love like that..... but that great changes can take place in us not when we simply try to love like that... but instead when we first realize that we have been loved like this. Would you ask for clarity in communication and that they would see Christ in the Word and even evidence of Christ in our own marriage? Many things that seem so cool to us, strike them differently (ie. Daddy serving his family pancakes on a Saturday morning.... not, “he takes joy in serving his family” but “why is he doing a woman’s job?”). Would you ask that the Lord would penetrate their hearts and give them understanding? Ask that the Lord would draw them to himself as he lures them with his True, Eternal, Saving, Forgiving, Perfect Love.
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