Perfect Match
About This Series
One major contributing factor to a successful marriage is having a good match. The freedom to choose our life partner confronts us with 3 essential questions. How can you become the right person? How can you determine who is the right person? How do you face the possibility that you may never find the right person?
SERMONS IN THIS SERIES
February 3, 2019
The Best Lover
Part 1 of Perfect Match
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- 1. What’s deficient about our culture’s emphasis that relationships are based on chemistry, i.e. finding just the right person is the key to relational success? What’s the better way to maximise your chances of having a great and lasting relationship?
- 2. What happens when you relate with people who are “bigger on the outside than inside”? What are you going to do so that you are becoming a person who is “bigger on the inside than outside”?
- 3. How do expectations complicate and shape the way we relate to each other? What is the key to managing expectations for great relationships? How can we possibly find the strength to relate to others unselfishly?
February 10, 2019
The Checklist
Part 2 of Perfect Match
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- 1. What is wisdom? Why is it important to marry a wise person?
- 2. How do your parents manage conflict? Does it enhance or erode relationship? How do you usually manage relational conflict?
- 3. What are some specific changes you want to make to become a better person? What is your real motivation? Why is goodness that is not motivated by God’s grace never truly good?
February 17, 2019
The Long Wait
Part 3 of Perfect Match
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- 1. What is the difference in the way Western and traditional societies view marriage and singleness? What revolutionary perspective does Christianity offer, and what is it based on?
- 2. Marriage and singleness each provide a different pathway for discipleship. What dangers does each status pose? What lessons can each teach us?
- 3. What is our ultimate marriage, and who are our eternal family? What implications do these truths hold for the way we should relate to each other whether as single or married people?