Welcome to the cutting room floor, a Southern Christian Church podcast.

Each week, we sit down with our teachers to talk through what didn't make it into Sunday's sermon.

Thoughts, stories, or questions that got left on the cutting room floor, but still matter.

There's no script, just real conversations that allow us to go deeper into last week's sermon.

Thanks for being with us.

Let's jump in.

Well, hey, everyone, and welcome to the cutting room floor. My name is Neil, and today we are joined by Mr. John Weiss. John, thanks for being here, man. It's good to be here. Yeah, we're excited. We're in the, gosh, whatever week you had mentioned, you said this early this morning, you're like, I don't know what week we're in. We're in the second week of the marriage side of things, but we're in the 10, 11-ish of this mega series that we've done on men, women, and marriage.

And even at the beginning of this week, I was really excited to kind of know what you were

going at.

You and I had met a little bit earlier about kind of this

whole image that we wanted to have of the journey. But before we get to any of that, what was this

like kind of chewing on? You know, you've hit, you were, you taught once on the men and once on the

women and now we're in the marriage. Where were you at as you were kind of preparing for this sermon?

I always excited to teach on anything that's relational because it hits a felt need and everyone's head and heart. So it doesn't matter if it's friendship, dating, or marriage. You know your audience is always going to lean in. So that makes it a little bit easier. And you don't have to kind of build the ramp, so to speak. Everybody's already... Totally. Right there, right out of the gate. And that was true today. Yeah, it was really fun. In this, we talked about, we're in Ephesians. Yes. Ephesians 5. 31. Talking about kind of the man and women leave, they become one flesh thing. As you unpack that, is there anything as you were kind of writing?

Again, we've talked about this before 75% of what you write ends up on the cutting room floor.

So maybe hit me with some of the things that you kind of weren't able to hit in your sermon, but we're on the cutting room floor.

Yeah, so Paul says, you know, a man leaves his mom and dad, a woman leaves her mom and dad,

and the two of them become one flesh.

This is the mystery, he says.

So that oneness, that's definitely sexual terminology, so there is a oneness that happens

at the honeymoon, and the two people become one then.

But over time, there's a greater sense of

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