You. Me. We.

Investing in Your Marriage

February 3, 2019 • Mike Linch

As we start our new Sunday teaching series, You. Me. We., guest speaker Pastor Mike Linch emphasizes how to invest in your marriage. God's way to a successful marriage focuses on what husbands and wives put into it, not on what they can get out of it through a process of sowing and reaping. "The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully." 2 Corinthians 9:6 "We" will never be greater than "me." The extent you're willing to grow yourself, is the extent your relationship will grow. The challenge: I'm willing to get out this relationship what I'm willing to put in it. The temptation after marriage is to focus on what I can get out of the relationship rather than focusing on what I can put into the relationship. 2 Corinthians 9:6, Galatians 6:7, 1 Peter 3:7a, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Luke 10:27

Fight Fair

February 10, 2019 • Scotty Priest

As we continue in our marriage teaching series, You. Me. We., Pastor Scotty Priest emphasizes how to fight fair. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh, Genesis 2:24. Relationships are a lifetime process that require work. In times of conflict, I will fight for unity, not for personal victory because I don't win if we lose. We all bring in to a relationship our box of hopes, dreams and desires and we place them on our spouse in the basket of expectations. But what we really need is God to fill us up, we need a relationship with God to meet our deepest needs, so that marriage can fill in all the rest of the gaps. A companion in life that can chase after the will of God together. James 4:1-2, James 1:19-20, Proverbs 18:2, Psalm 141:3, Ephesians 4:26-27, Romans 12:21

It's Mutual

February 17, 2019 • Scotty Priest

"You before me equals a really good we. Happy couples put each other first." As we finish our marriage teaching series, You. Me. We., Pastor Scotty Priest emphasizes how to love one another through mutual submission. "It's Mutual" is the centerpiece and foundation for Christian married couple. It's a dance back and forth of honoring and submitting to one another, and often we forget that our choices lead, feelings follow. The best marriages are a mutual submission contest. "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ . . . Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. . . Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her . . . In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself." Ephesians 5:21-28 Genesis 2:24, John 13:34