Here are some good points and illustrations that Pastor Per mentioned in his sermon:
- Marriage: standing side by side journeying life together.
- Marriage is a "cat house". A "cat house" is one of those houses that are for sale that are in very poor shape and smell like a litter box. Even with all the flaws of a cat house, there's hope, a vision, for the house to become a glorious house. Marriage is when a couple shares a vision for each other to become wonderful, glorious people.
- Marriage is a cleansing. Sure, sometimes it feels like a luxurious bubble bath but, marriage is so intimate that it reveals all your cuts and bruises (flaws) that you hide underneath the dirt and it can sting.
- You spouse is like a big truck that drives right through your heart and shows you all your cracks. You can't escape them.
- Marriage exposes your blemishes that no one else knows about. It's also a positive and lives out Jesus' love.
- We get upset but, not at them, at their sin.
- The difference between a normal marriage and a Christian marriage is that we don't look for that perfect spouse but keep the one we have and get down and dirty to help that spouse become that perfect spouse.
- God is the only one who can make us without spot or wrinkle.
- Grace is a grounding compound that polishes us. Without that grounding compound we just shatter or don't change at all. Our flaws are still there.
- Marriage is like two ugly ducklings. The two ugly ducklings have their flaws but they help each other out (through God) by exposing each others ugliness and with their shared vision bring them back up as beautiful swans.
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