Loyalty Basics
What is Trust?
Not 'ME' but...
What is 'WE'?
According to Matthew 5:28, adultery can begin where?
What is the heart?
Your mate says:
“I feel like we don't spend enough quality time together.”
You respond:
A. “But we're together every day.”
B. “Let's figure out how we can spend more meaningful time together.”
Which response better reflects the article?
B
Complete the sentence:
“Think of ______ instead of ______.”
WE and ME
What quality should we cherish according to Micah 6:8
What is loyalty?
True/False: Being in the same room together is good enough to spend time with your mate
What is False?
What did Job make a covenant with and why did he do so?
What is his eyes?
He resolved not to look with desire at another woman.
Your mate tells you that they feel uncomfortable about one of your friendships.
You personally don't think the friendship is inappropriate.
According to the article, what should you at least be willing to do?
Consider your mate's feelings.
“Is my mate my ______?”
Best friend
Without this quality, there is no trust.
Loyalty
Why should you strive to not neglect your mate?
Because Jehovah wants married couples to focus on their mate, enjoy life together, and look for ways to make each other happy.
Name two things the article says a person should guard in order to safeguard their heart.
You're extremely busy. Your mate wants some time together, but you have several other things you could be doing.
What scripture brings out what principle to help you make the right decision?
Philippians 1:10 - Make sure of the more important things
Why does making your marriage a priority help protect loyalty?
Because regularly giving your mate time, attention, appreciation, and consideration strengthens the relationship and helps build trust and closeness.
What are 2 ways to protect your marriage?
Make your marriage a priority.
Safeguard your heart.
Scenario:
Your spouse comes home and wants to tell you about their day. You're sitting beside them, but you're scrolling through your phone while occasionally saying, “Uh-huh.”
According to the article, have you really given your mate your undivided attention?
No. Explain
Someone says:
“I know this person is attractive, but I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just enjoying talking to them.”
According to the article, what potential danger should they recognize?
They could allow an emotional or romantic attachment to develop, which could threaten their loyalty to their mate.
You're attracted to someone who isn't your mate.
You haven't acted on the attraction.
According to the article, what should you do? What scripture can you apply?
Don't feed the attraction. Safeguard your heart, fight immoral thoughts, guard what you look at, and avoid developing a romantic attachment.
Safeguarding the heart means dealing with the problem when?
Before it develops into something more serious.
True/False: Being loyal means not committing adultery.
What is False?
You have 100 points to distribute between these four things according to what you think best demonstrates the principle of making your marriage a priority:
Challenge: Explain your distribution.
There isn't necessarily one exact numerical answer. The important thing is recognizing that time, attention, consideration, and making your mate happy are central to the principle—not simply spending money on them.
Put these events in the most logical progression of danger:
A. Romantic attachment develops.
B. Someone begins confiding personal feelings to another person.
C. The person becomes increasingly emotionally interested in them.
D. The friendship starts becoming unusually important.
B → D → C → A
The important lesson isn't simply identifying the final wrongdoing. Loyalty means recognizing danger early and acting before things progress.
Your mate says:
“I trust you completely. You don't have to change anything about this friendship just because I feel uncomfortable.”
What should you do?
Consider your mate's feelings and to end a relationship that would make your mate uncomfortable. The larger principle is that loyalty isn't simply asking, “Am I technically doing something wrong?” It asks, “Am I protecting my marriage and my mate's trust?”
The article gives two major instructions:
1. Make your marriage a priority.
2. Safeguard your heart.
Explain how these two instructions actually work together to protect a marriage.
Making your marriage a priority strengthens the positive side of the relationship—you spend time together, give your mate attention, appreciate them, and think in terms of “we.”
Safeguarding your heart protects the marriage from the negative influences that could weaken that bond—you guard your thoughts, eyes, emotions, and relationships with others.
So one is essentially about building the marriage, while the other is about protecting the marriage.