Would you turn, please, to the, well, first of all, if you didn't bring a Bible with you, hold up your hand, we have extra Bibles.

We'd be glad to let you use one of ours.

And go please to 1st Corinthians.

1 Corinthians, the 12th chapter. We're continuing on our marriage

meeting tonight, and Phyllis is going to assist me. Amen. How many believe year to year

we should grow in our marriages, in our relationships? relationships i mean we should just outgrow a lot of

the problems we used to have and we should just get into levels of relationship and intimacy and

love and fun that other people think just a fairy tale they ah, you didn't really got a relationship like that.

But we do.

Why?

And it should be one of the strongest witnesses in the church.

Because it is a living, touchable, seeable picture of Christ and the church.

Husbands, every time people see us, they should be thinking, that's just how Jesus

treats the church.

That's just how Jesus is with the church.

And wives, every time people see you, they ought to be thinking, that's just like the

perfected bride of Christ treats her Lord and her husband.

What a witness.

I mean, you wouldn't have to preach it people verbally as much if we had such powerful preaching of our lives.

And I believe we are, I believe we've already begun in that.

We've made progress just in the last, you know, two or three years here.

But we can go so much farther, so much higher, so much stronger.

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