A class for marrieds based on book of same title by Francis & Lisa Chan. The class will focus not just on marriage but also on being sold out, passionate, and mission-focused in our marriages and families.

1. You and me
forever
19 July 2016
Don & Cindy Fetherman

2. Chapter 4
Don’t Waste Your Marriage
Marriage in Light of the Mission

3. Mark 2:22
And no one pours new wine into
old wineskins. Otherwise, the
wine will burst the skins, and both
the wine and the wineskins will be
ruined. No, they pour new wine
into new wineskins.

4. Reasons to focus on
the mission
Jesus commanded it.
Matthew 28:18-20
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in
heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore
go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have
commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to
the very end of the age.

5. Go and make
disciples
Go—poreouō—to pursue the journey on
which one has entered, to continue on
one’s journey; to traverse, i.e. travel or go,
take a journey
make disciples—mathēteuō—to follow
one’s precepts and instructions; to teach,
instruct

6. Reasons to focus on
the mission
Jesus is on the battlefield.
2 Timothy 2:3-4
Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ
Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in
civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his
commanding officer.

7. Reason to focus on
the mission
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes
on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth.

8. Life is a battlefield

9. What shall we do?
Evaluate:
1. What aspects of your life are you doing well with
regard to the mission?
2. What aspects of your life are you not doing well with
regard to the mission?
3. What practical steps can you take beginning tonight?

10. Reasons to focus on
the mission
• People are dying.
• You were created for this mission.
• The mission provides financial security.
• This is the path to a happy marriage.
• God’s mission is bigger than your marriage.
• The return of Christ compels us.

11. Thank you