Got Intimacy?

Tonight wraps up a couple months of helping men become better communicators at home, work, ministry, etc.  Our final group of men have to give a 30 second infomercial on a topic of their choice, then give a compelling reading of the “Gettysburg Address”, and then finally give a 15-18 minute speech handwritten with notes to be distributed to the other guys.  It has been fun, and I’m looking forward to hearing the men bring it. Grow men, change the community!!

I wanted to do a quick re-cap of www.epicchurchlv.org series “Got Intimacy?” Where the bottom line goal was to lay a strong biblical foundation for singles, dating couples, and married couples to begin the journey towards real, God centered intimacy.  I pray this series becomes so deep, that it actually will be applied by all of us listening.  “The deepest message is an applied message!”:)

Here you go…….

Week 1 – “I promise that God will always be my #1 priority, and my spouse will be my #2. Sounds easy enough, but truthfully has been a struggle for me.  Singles made a commitment to pray that God would become their #1 priority & that they would first move to become complete in God, and then pursue their #2.  Married couples, were encouraged to take 7 days and pray for each other together.   Pray that God would be the #1 priority in their marriage, and that they would make each other their #2 priority.

Week 2 – “I Promise to always pursue my #2″. At some point after we capture the prize, we begin to take it for-granted, and in our natural humanness, we tend to pursue what we don’t already have.  Hence affairs.  Never forget to stop pursuing your #2!  Angel & I play the “SHMILY” (See How Much I Love You) note game.  She even wrote that on my dirty car this week.  She’s winning!  But I put secret notes all over and she has yet to find them – oh yeah!:)

Week 3 – “I Promise our marriage will be about WE, and not me”. Marriage is a covenant, not a contract.  A contract is built on mutual distrust.  A covenant is built on a mutual commitment.  We don’t run when the going gets tough!  Will you want to at times?  Yep!  Have I wanted to?  Yep!  Has Angel wanted to?  Yep!  By God’s grace our marriages will prevail.  Don’t give up!

Week 4 – “I Promise to confide in you, and not hide from you”. Where secrets live, intimacy dies!  Where intimacy lives, secrets die!  What are you hiding from?  Lets live our lives with no secrets.  If we call ourselves Christ followers, we’ll truly live in the light.  Are you living in the light?  Don’t get comfortable in the darkroom of normalcy.

Listen, grow, apply, and you’ll watch as Jesus increases and you decrease.  Want deep?  Lets live it!