How to Connect in a Marriage
June 23, 2024Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook | June 23, 2024
Series: Fight for Your Family
Text: Song of Solomon (selected passages)
Dr. Christiaan Barnard – the South African heart surgeon to have performed the first successful heart transplant
The Song of Solomon
- a love poem
- communication between two lovers
Read Proverbs 18:21 and 1 Peter 3:10
“Too many couples just don’t communicate – and therefore, they don’t connect.”
Five Levels of Communication
- The level
- The level
- The level
- The level
- The level
Intimacy: comes from the Latin word intimus (‘inmost”)
A Biblical example of intimate marital communication is The Song of Solomon
Four Factors of Intimate Communication
I. words
A. Men are oriented
B. Women are oriented
II. words
Read Song of Solomon 5:2
Read Song of Solomon 5:10
III. words
Read Song of Solomon 1:9-11, 15-16
Read Colossians 4:6
What grace is: it is not giving others what they deserve but what they need
Read Song of Solomon 5:16 “His mouth is most sweet” – referring to his words
IV. words
Read Song of Solomon 2:8-14
Read Proverbs 9:17-18
“If you want your honeymoon not to end – start your marriage right.”
Read 1 Corinthians 7:3-5
Ecclesiastes 4:12 “A threefold cord is not quickly broken” – You. Your spouse. God