You should always stay in this.
Your circle.
Our founding pastor's wife taught that grace is an acronym for:
G - Give it generously
R - Repeat that step
A - Assist in the process
C - Conditional grace isn't grace
E - Experience God's grace for yourself
Jean Williams
It has been well said, "while love may be blind, marriage is a real ___________?"
eye-opener
The first couple.
Adam and Eve
Always believe what about your spouse?
The best!
Chapter 5 tells us the goal of communication is...
mutual understanding
These Re|Engage facilitators not only lead a group and oversee the Re|Engage ministry at Northpointe, but they gave their testimony during week 9. Their story points to God's commitment to always meet us where we are.
Christi and Chris Bennett
According to C.S. Lewis, what is "not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less?"
Humility
1 Corinthians 13:7 says, "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ____________ all things."
endures
Chapter 14 says, "Continue to invest ________ in your relationship with Christ and your marriage".
daily
Re|Engage encourages couples to embrace this.
Oneness
This facilitator husband once had to ground his wife when she wasn't taking high school seriously.
Jonathan Cervantez
According the Timothy Keller, "To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by ______".
God
Ephesians 2:5 tells us we have been saved by what?
Grace
Chapter 14 says, "You haven't truly completed re|engage until you begin to _______ _______ what God has given you."
give away
Chapter 9 on commitment tells us to lock what?
The doors.
This Celebrate Recovery Pastor delivered a message in Week 8 about reconciliation. He defined reconciliation as "coming back together" and asked us several questions including "Are you willing to sacrifice for forgiveness to get to reconciliation"?
Pastor Will Russell
Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the __________ that sustains your love."
marriage
Mark 10:8-9 says, "...and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has _________ together, let not man separate."
joined
Couples that ___________ often struggle.
isolate
All of marriage is...
These Re|Engage facilitators hold the record for leading the most groups (six consecutive semesters) and gave their testimony for the first time in week 12. Their testimony demonstrates the goodness of God's plan and timing.
Kristal and Rene Ramirez
Gary Thomas posed this question. "What if God intended marriage to make us ____________ more than happy?"
holy
James 1:19b says, "Let every person be __________ to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger."
quick
Who should you always Re|Engage with first?
Jesus