Week 8: Jon Blanchard

A. Time spent this week
SS: 1 Hour Worship: 1 hour Night service: 2 hours Total Hours: 4
B. My class this week
This week we started a new series for married couples. Since the move fireproof has come out, there has been some interest in ‘fireproof-ing’ people’s marriages. We started off the series by having everyone sign a contract, basically setting up a safe environment in which to speak truthfully and also to state the purpose of the group. We then watched a video clip from the actual movie, which portrays a conversation between Michael, an officer in a fire company, and another officer. Michael talks about how he began a 4o day ‘love dare,” which challenged him to reconcile with his estranged wife, and in the process, he ‘came to the faith’ of the other man. The two talked about how it was becoming extremely difficult to for Michael to love his wife, and the other firefighter told him about how he had been married before, and that it had ended it divorce because he was in the relationship solely for himself. Being married takes a lot of work, and sometimes you don’t really like the other person, but it is a commitment before God.
We were given a set of notebooks to keep our material in, and with the set we were given a bunch of 3x5 cards with a different love dare for each day. We were challenged to do a different dare each day to help strengthen our relationship.
C. Questions
How do you feel about postponing traditional Sunday school to do a series on marriage?
How do you feel about scripture not being emphasize in Sunday school?