Marriage Seminar

This is the table of contents to our marriage seminar.

Finding Your True Love, One Verse At a Time
An Expositional Marriage Seminar
By Brother Charley Buntin
Bible Teacher
Trace Creek Baptist Church
Mayfield, KY

Introduction

There are lots of marriage seminars and marriage gurus in our world today, because there are so many marriages in trouble. Some seminars and gurus are, as far as God’s purpose is concerned, totally useless. Others have one degree or another of useful information, but don’t seem to have a long-lasting effect. This seminar is presented with one constant focal point—if believers in Christ are obedient to His Word with regard to the family, their marriage will work and their family will prosper. If believers are not obedient, their marriage will not work and their family will not prosper. Marriage was and is God’s idea—He invented it, He instituted it, and it is the “Holy institution which He loves…” (Mal 2:10), therefore, it should be obvious that only His instructions will work over the long haul. The writer of this seminar claims no special revelation, nor any particular expertise, except as a man of God and Bible teacher and as a participant in a marriage that happily endures after 37 years. I am a beggar who has found where to get free bread—the bread of life—and I want to help other beggars find the same.

This seminar is here presented in outline form, for two purposes. For the believer or seeker who would study God’s Word with reference to Marriage, here is a guide to self study. Read the brief comments, look up the verses, pray for understanding, and live what it says. For the busy pastor or Sunday School teacher, here is a tool to use in teaching. You may teach it freely.

The goal of this project is that God would be glorified as marriages are saved from the ravages of our times. May He so use this booklet.

Nearly half of this set of notes is dedicated to the first two chapters, on Worldview and Authority. The reason this is so is that instruction in marriage is of no use if the recipients of the instruction do not hold to the Christian Worldview and do not accept the inerrancy, inspiration, authority and sufficiency of the Bible.

Ten Sessions

1. The Christian Worldview—John 18:36-38, 1 Cor 6:18-20
2. The Authority and Sufficiency of the Bible—2 Tim 3:15-17
3. What Is Manhood? Genesis 1:26-28, 2:15-16
4. What is Womanhood? Genesis 1:26-28, 2:18-23
5. What is True Love? 1 John 4:7-11, 1 Cor 13:4-7
6. What is Marriage? Genesis 2:18-25, Mat 19:1-11, Eph 5:21-33
7. What a Woman Must Give Her Man— Eph 5:21-24, Eph 5:33, 1 Pet 3:1-6
8. What a Man Must Give His Wife—Eph 5:25-33, 1 Pet 3:7
9. The Broken Covenant—Mal 2:10-16
10. The Broken Covenant Restored—Eph 5:30, Luke 15:11-32, 1 Cor 7:10-11, Mat 18:15-35