Now That You’ve Said

“I Do!”South Sound Church of

Christ Marriage Workshop?

Future Sessions

1. What Is Marriage?2. Uniqueness and Acceptance in Marriage3. Expectations in Marriage4. Fulfilling Intimacy Needs in Marriage5. Roles Responsibilities and Decision Making6. Communication in Marriage7. Dealing with Conflict in Marriage8. Sex in Marriage

REVIEWHomework Last Week

For Homework

Take some time together on a date to identify and discuss your intimate needs with each other.•Make plans this week to meet your spouse’s needs.

ROLES RESPONSIBILITIES & DECISION MAKING

Who does what and why? Does he or she do it? It is because of what the church has said? Or is it because that’s the way it was

done in your parents home?

WHAT ABOUT THE QUESTION OF ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN

MARRIAGE?

ESTABLISHING

RESPONSIBILITIES

Failure to clarify husband-wife roles & responsibilities is a

major cause of marital disruption.

The assignment of tasks shouldn’t be made simply because of parental example, because it’s expected in your social group, or because of

tradition. Each couple will need to have the strength to establish their own style of working together. It is

important that a couple deliberately and mutually develop the rules and guidelines for their own relationship

as husband and wife.

Ephesians 5:21-33

What does the bible have to say concerning the role of the wife and the role of the husband?

1 Peter 3:11 Wives, in the same way be

submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not

believe the word, they may be won over without words by the

behavior of their wives…

Q. How do these scriptures affect the wife’s submission to her husband?

Colossians 3:18 - Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Acts 5:29 - Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than men!

SubmissionSubmission does not mean that the wife is inferior, nor should it stifle her initiative. It does not limit her in any way. Q. How does the Proverb 31 woman use her abilities

Ephesians 5:21-33

What does Ephesians 5 say about the role of the husband?

Q. What example should the husband exhibit as he leads the

marriage relationship?

Mutual Submission

In marriage each one gives to and receives from the

other. Marriage is built upon each person being a

compliment to the other.

When a man and a woman unite in marriage, humanity experiences a

restoration to wholeness. The glory of the man is the acknowledgement that woman was created for him; the glory of the woman is the acknowledgement

that man is incomplete with out her; the humility of the woman is the

acknowledgement that she was made for man; the humility of the man is that he is incomplete without her. Both share an equal dignity, honor, and worth. Yes, and each shares a humility before the

other. Each is necessarily the completion of the other; each is

necessarily dependent upon the other.Dr. Dwight Small

HOMEWORKRole Concepts Comparison