Water’s Edge Week in Review: Week #4, November 25, 2008
Write Them on My Heart
After a week’s hiatus for Thanksgiving, I’m back to blogging. We’ll get things restarted with a recap of last Tuesday’s Water’s Edge services.
Weekend Teaching Series: Write them On My Heart (A series on the 10 Commandments)
Message Title: Word Seven: You Will Not Commit Adultery
Sermon in a Sentence: God’s plan for marriage: One man, one woman, becoming one flesh, for one lifetime.
Text(s): Genesis 1:27, 2:23-24; Matthew 19:1-12; 1 Corinthians 7:4; Ephesians 5:25-33
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 5 of 10 extremely straightforward service, the difficulty was communicating about adultery in a way teens found relevant. Way too easy to simply skip past that one and say “It doesn’t apply to me because I’m not married yet.”
Message Summary: We started by challenging that viewpoint that this command doesn’t apply to us because we aren’t married yet (or at least my teens aren’t – I am.) We looked at the fact that the command about murder, far from simply prohibiting premeditated fatal violence actually calls the people of God to a profound respect for life. In the same way this command calls those who would call themselves God’s children to have and to demonstrate a profound respect for marriage.
