Marriage???

For Engage: We talked about the characteristics we find attractive in the opposite sex--not having to do with appearance.

For Application: We looked at Ps. 146: 6-9 This passage tells a lot of God's attributes, and since God is the ultimate person to have a relationship with, we talked about how we should cultivate the same attributes in ourselves. (watching out for "aliens", speaking for people who don't have a voice...) And by becoming more like this ourselves, not only would we get to know God better, but we said that we'd be apt to find someone like this in the future.

For Inform: We discussed ways that we've seen our parents make the wife being submissive and the husband be the head work. We talked about what ways it wouldn't work--like when things get abusive.
The one part of the sermon that we struggled with for a moment is why God holds men responsible for their wife's sin.

All in all, I feel like they had a pretty good understanding of the sermon, but some of them still felt like being submissive is demeaning--which I think is typical for their age. I remember in high school we respected the tough girls more. And bowing the head doesn't look tough to the untrained eye. So we will continue to work through this.

(I posted this for Virginia...)