Why “When Sinners Say, I do”?

Please remember to join us for our Family Life Meeting this Saturday night, Nov. 10, beginning at 6:30 pm. Our special guest will be our own Dave Harvey, who’ll be talking about his new book, When Sinners Say, ‘I Do’. At our recent ‘Hot Topics’ Family Life Meeting I thought Andy Farmer did a great job clarifying why this book is so helpful, and is being read in so many different areas of the Christian community. Here are Andy’s thoughts that he shared at “Hot Topics”:

We’re studying Dave’s book (and he’s not here tonight so I can do this) “When Sinners Say I Do” and I want to make sure that those who are reading that book get the point. The title of the book is “When Sinners Say I Do”, but the heart of the book is not sin, but what it is like to be married under the watchful gaze and helpful grace of a loving God. And if we study this book and read it and discuss it, not so much looking for “where am I sinning?” but learning to see marriage in a God-referenced way, we’ll discover how grace abounds in both the successes and failures of marriage. Christian marriage books typically start with the importance of God, but by the time you get to the end of the book God is kind of a coach, encouraging you from the sidelines in the work you’re doing in your marriage. But practical things like submission, resolving conflict, dealing with disappointments, all those kinds of things are understood first and best when they’re understood as we live, and breathe and act before a God who is holy but who has our interest at heart. If you just see that, study that, focus on that, it comes alive in the book, and it will help you understand that even the toughest trials of marriage are filled with God-breathed purpose. And that will be so helpful to every married couple.

Come Saturday night and experience ‘God breathed purpose” for your marriage.