1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

From Background Notes [BN] for May 12^th & 13^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Marriage, therefore, exists not primarily to make us happy but to make us holy--though in the long run, of course, there can be no happiness apart from holiness. But it's holiness that God is after...

Holiness simply means that God undertakes the life-long project to transform our lives, make them grow, cause them to be strong, and, above all else, make them reflect who He is--become godlike ourselves. And so in marriage God goes to work on us--begins to teach us what it means, what it will require of us, to love even just this one person as God loves each of us, with steadfastness and faithfulness. Every marriage will be different, of course, and so the lesson will have to come in different ways, but it has a chance to happen for us only as we accept the discipline of marriage as God's good gift to us.  [BN, 9-10]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene –

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am, 5:30pm