Memes that Matter (Love your wife with exclusivity. Love your husband with anticipation.)

The One Thing

Love your wife with exclusivity. Love your husband with anticipation.

The Passage

1 Corinthians 6:13-15, Proverbs 5:15-23, Proverbs 27:15-16, Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 18:22, Matthew 5:44, Proverbs 3:3-5.

growgroup questions

Know

• K1 Imagining an affair but never acting on it: is this a sin or not? Explain your answer using biblical references as needed.

Grow

• G1 Nancy Pearcey in “Love Thy Body” says that personhood theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personhood) “sees no value in the living body but places all our worth in the mind or consciousness”. In the world today where do you see signs or indicators of this worldview in popular culture or the media?
• G2 How might the idea that “the body is separate from the person” have contributed to the casual view of sex and the hook-up culture of today? How do 1 Corinthians 6:13 and 18 speak against this way of viewing sex?
• G3 Why is so important for women that their husbands love them with exclusivity? Why exclusivity?
• G4 Why is so important for men that their wives love them with anticipation? Why anticipation?
• G5 How can Proverbs 5:21-23 be a motivator in being a godly spouse?
• G6 Why does Proverbs describe a wife as quarrelsome so often? Is the writer fair / right to do so? Why or why not? What is
• G7 Where do we draw the line between (a) loving someone even though the romance has gone and (b) enduring an abusive relationship?

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• S1 Think of one way you can love your spouse with exclusivity or anticipation. If you’re not married, think of how you can recommit your singleness to God for His purposes and find your fulfilment in Him.