Marriage Mini-Series
You’re reading Part 3 in a several-part blog mini-series on marriage. I’m developing these posts from my book, Gospel-Centered Marriage Counseling: An Equipping Guide for Pastors and Counselors.
You can read Part 1 here: 4 Foundations of Marriage and Marriage Counseling.
You can read Part 2 here: 3 Purposes That Can Change Your Marriage Forever.
Leave, Cleave, Weave, and Receive
Every pastor and biblical counselor wants to help couples enjoy a God-glorifying, mutually-meaningful marriage. Many of us have used the Genesis 2:23-25 creation marital narrative of “leave, cleave, weave, and receive.”
So why are so many Christian marriages still struggling?
Perhaps because we have used these four pillars in a solution-focused way, instead of in a gospel-centered, soul-u-tion-focused manner. I confess I did that for several years of marriage ministry.
So, I want us to learn together how to use these pillars to address heart motivation when seeking to build oneness in marriage.
Oneness in Marriage Pillar #1: “Leaving”
In Genesis 2:24, we read, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother…”
The Hebrew word for “leave” means to sever, cut, untie. We might say, “cut the apron strings”—meaning to cut the umbilical cord of dependence upon
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