SESSION 3 Total Time: 60 minutes Video = 23 minutes Discussion = 37 minutes
3. The DNA of Sin
“If the heart is the problem in a marriage, what is the problem with the heart?”
OPENING DISCUSSION: Consider and discuss the following BEFORE watching Session 3: 1. Name three things that, if you had, would result in a peaceful, pleasurable, and comfortable day. 2. How could those three things potentially become destructive idols in a marriage? SCRIPTURE PASSAGE 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. KEY IDEAS: 1. The power of sin has been broken (justification), but the presence of sin still remains and is being progressively eradicated (sanctification). 2. Sin causes us to shrink our lives down to the size of our lives. 3. The DNA of sin is selfishness. 4. Sin is anti-social in its fundamental form. 5. Sin will cause you to dehumanize the other person in your marriage. 6. You have been born into a world that, by its very nature, is a celebration of Another.
PRINCIPLE 2: Sin causes us to shrink our lives down to the size of our lives
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OPENING DISCUSSION: All good and pleasurable things have the ability to become destructive. Too much food results in obesity; too much wine results in drunkenness; too much sex results in addiction. A desire for peace and quiet can be a pleasurable thing, but if it rules your heart, you will respond in anger if you get disrupted. A desire for control and leadership can be biblical, but if it rules your heart, you will respond in despair and fear when that power is lost. Most, if not all, of the things your participants will share as pleasurable things will not be sinful on their own. The question is: does that thing rule their heart and compete with God as king?
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