Welcome to A Sunday Community for Couples of all ages!

Socks for the Homeless 2017 Once again we have the opportunity to serve the needy in the Washington metropolitan area through our annual ‘Socks for the Homeless’ drive. Our GOAL in 2017 is 1000 pairs of new winter socks for the homeless. Please be generous in your donations.

Signup to Serve! Just to name A few! Clothing Ministry Christmas Shop Weekend Sorting Parking Lot Assistants Christmas Village: Just to name A few! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a44abad2ca6fd0-christmas

Christmas Shop 2017 Wednesday, Dec. 13 Thurs, Dec. 14 Fri, Dec. 15 10am: Transport Crew Bring gifts from offsite storage 12pm-8pm: Setup Crew Unload Boxes Arrange gifts Decorate room & hall Thurs, Dec. 14 10am-4pm: Setup Crew Arrange gifts Get upstairs hallway ready for shoppers Get 1600 hallway ready for shoppers 5pm: Volunteer Registration & Training 6pm-9pm: Shopping for Children We need LOTS of volunteers. See handouts for details or Visit: https://www.trackitforward.com/site/65518/events for details and sign-up. Please help! Fri, Dec. 15 9am-3pm: Tear Down Crew (Two (2) shifts – 9a -12p and 12p – 3p We need “helpers” and “drivers”.

Saturday = 9a – 1p in Rooms 1609/1610 Weekend SORTING HOURS Saturday = 9a – 1p in Rooms 1609/1610 Sunday = 9a – 12p in Room 1612 Click here -> clothingshop@mcleanbible.org

Volunteers Signup HERE!

PARKING MINISTRY Contact Aaron Paganini WANTED: A few GOOD MEN!! Aaron.Paganini@mcleanbible.org 703-867-3268

End of Reminders

Today’s Keynote Speaker And now!

Mike Pullen

Blueprint for Marriage Mike Pullen

Ephesians 5:21-33 New International Version (NIV) Instructions for Christian Households 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, …………

Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV) Instructions for Christian Households 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Colossians 3:18-4:1 (NIV) Instructions for Christian Households 18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers,[a] do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. 22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism. 4 Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

Genesis 2:18-25 (NIV) 18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam[a] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[b] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[c] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:18-25 (NIV) 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones     and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’     for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Genesis 3:11-13 (NIV) 11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” 12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Leadership Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home. Submission is the divine calling of a wife to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership and help carry it through according to her gifts.

You cannot demand that your husband take leadership. Demanding is contradictory to the very thing which is shown here. It is out of character. If you become the demander, he’s not the leader. Demanding will be counterproductive because if he had any impulse to try harder, your demanding will take the heart out of it, because it won’t be leading any more; it will feel like acquiescence. It has to come from inside him, worked by the word of God and the Spirit of God.

What can you do? Pray earnestly for him, that God would awaken his true manhood. Focus on your role and your heart toward God and your Husband.

You cannot demand that your wife submit. Demanding is contradictory to the very thing you are asking. If you demand submission you take away the free desire. Forced submission is enslavement or entrapment . It has to come from inside her, worked by the word of God and the Spirit of God.

What can you do? Pray earnestly for her, that God would awaken her heart. Focus on your role and your heart toward God and your Wife.

‘Til next week!