• Connection Card Question!
• What does this look like on a practical level?
• When and how did this mindset shift in our relationships?
• Singleness and Dating: Erika’s testimony
• Change of perspective on singleness
• Focused attention by force
• Relationships through a spiritual lens
• Singleness “advice”
• Church Community is vital
• Cultural norms and expectations in dating
• It can and should be a joyful season
• Integrated community in dating: Lauren testimony
• Safety and protection in letting wise community 
• Seek to build relationships with older and younger believers of wisdom
• Trusted spiritual relationships will help speak truth into your blind spots
• The weight and reality of loneliness in both singleness and relationships
• Relationships are not the band aid to your loneliness, only Christ is
• The cycle of treating your loneliness with relationships is never ending
• Seek out single women in your community and build relationships with them
• Value single’s highly for more than they’re babysitting abilities, they are not lesser, they have in many ways so much more freedom to further the kingdom
• Use your gifts for the kingdom no matter your relationship status
• “It’s better to be single than to wish you were”
• Marriage: Deanna testimony
• Pre VS Post legalism mindset in marriage
• Difficult season in marriages
• Vows: “You better” vs “ I do” expectations
• Jealousy, anger and pressures in marriage
• Develop your own spiritual life
• “I am responsible for my spiritual walk, not his.”
• Forcing your spiritual walk onto your husband 
• “A woman can wear a man down really fast.”
• Wedding illustration of how to view your bride/groom from a kingdom mindset
• Your husband is your brother in Christ before your spouse!
• The only person who can heal the expectations/mindset
• God is your spouse’s Lord, not you.
• Trusting God with your spouse.
• Growing spurts/dry spells: do not compare yours to theirs.
• 9 months, 12 years and 30+ years of marriage among us
• “Spiritual Leader” concept of the husband's role in the Bible (or maybe not so much…..)
• You stand before God alone. Not with your spouse. He gets his own “one on one” with God to answer for how He stewarded his family. 
• Marriage: Lauren testimony
• Matriarch heritage: women “wearing the pants”, ruling the home
• Lauren’s “Come to Jesus” moment in her marriage
• Humility in marriage
• When the Lord brings something to your attention, He wants to fix it in you and will if you let Him.
• Disclaimer: we are not giving marriage advice, we are not experts or licensed marriage counselors.
• The individual must take the responsibility for the individual.
• Fun Cup Question!

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