Today on Summit Life with Jiddy Greer.

Could you go through life without a happy marriage and still feel happy and fulfilled?

Because if the answer is no, then marriage has probably become an idol to you.

I don't mean do you want to be married because that's a God-given desire.

But I mean, is it so significant to you that you don't see how life would be worth living without it?

Yeah. to you that you don't see how life would be worth living without it. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host,

Molly Vitovich, and happy Independence Day. Today, we are launching a new teaching series called First Love.

We'll be dealing with some common pitfalls and struggles in relationships, whether those are

romantic relationships, friendships, or anything else. And today we are kicking it all off by getting

a biblical perspective on the purpose of marriage. And big surprise, it's a lot different than what

our culture usually portrays in songs and movies. Now, if you missed any of the messages earlier

this week from our teaching series come to the table, you can find them online anytime at

jd.com. But for now, it's time to get started with a message Pastor J.D. titled

This Light and Momentary Marriage. Today we are launching out on a new six-week series called

First Love Building Gospel-centered Relationships. The one area, whether you are a Christian or not, the one area that provides simultaneously

those joy in your life and the most heartache is relationships. And that's going to be true

whether you are single or whether you are married. Our whole study over the next six weeks

is going to come out of Ephesians 5

versus 22 through 32. All the messages are going to come out of there. And we're going to be

considering a lot of things that relate to romance into marriage and what the Bible says about

those. But let me make this very clear. This is not exactly a marriage series. We're going to learn

a lot of principles about ourselves that apply to all relationships, but we're going to learn a lot of principles about ourselves that apply to all

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