1. Mixed Religious Marriages7
Mixed Religious Marriages

2. Being your best self as a Christian is the goal in a mixed religious marriage.

3. Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
“I will dwell in them and walk among them;
And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
- II Corinthians 6:14-16

4. II Corinthians deals with Christians and Paganism

5. I Corinthians 7:12-16
Don’t divorce - vs. 12
But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

6. I Corinthians 7:12-16
Don’t divorce - vs. 12
Live in peace - vs. 13
And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.

7. The marriage is valid - vs. 14
I Corinthians 7:12-16
Don’t divorce - vs. 12
Live in peace - vs. 13
The marriage is valid - vs. 14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

8. If the unbeliever leaves, the marriage is over - vs. 15
I Corinthians 7:12-16
Don’t divorce - vs. 12
Live in peace - vs. 13
The marriage is valid - vs. 14
If the unbeliever leaves, the marriage is over - vs. 15
Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

9. Let go when they let go - vs. 16
I Corinthians 7:12-16
Don’t divorce - vs. 12
Live in peace - vs. 13
The marriage is valid - vs. 14
If the unbeliever leaves, the marriage is over - vs. 15
Let go when they let go - vs. 16
For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

11. Advice for R.M.M
Realize that God has not abandoned you

12. But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Romans 8:37-38

13. nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:39

14. Communicate positively about your religion
Advice for R.M.M
Realize that God has not abandoned you
Communicate positively about your religion

15. Act like a Christian Advice for R.M.M
Realize that God has not abandoned you
Communicate positively about your religion
Act like a Christian

16. Identify and keep your priorities
Advice for R.M.M
Realize that God has not abandoned you
Communicate positively about your religion
Act like a Christian
Identify and keep your priorities

17. Priorities YES God Mate Children Church World NO God Church Children
Spouse
World

18. Advice for R.M.M Try to understand the UNBELIEVER
Realize that God has not abandoned you
Communicate positively about your religion
Act like a Christian
Identify and keep your priorities
Try to understand the UNBELIEVER

19. Common complaints by Non-Believers married to Christians:
Lack of comfort
Feelings of betrayal
Self Persecution
Panic

20. Common complaints by Non-Believers married to Christians:
Resentment
Prejudice
Struggle for control

21. Believer’s role in church
Find your gift
Minister
Teach
Pray

22. Don’t Lose Hope!