The first lesson in our series kicks off with a short history of the idea of love itself and these have influenced our modern concepts of marriage.

1. In Love for Life
Building or Rebuilding a Great Marriage
Mike Mazzalongo
#1 - The Love Connection

3. Love or Infatuation?
Infatuation is instant desire. It is one set
Of glands calling to another. Love is
friendship that has caught fire. It takes root
and grows – one day at a time.
- Ann Landers

4. Romanic Myth
• Mr. or Miss. “Right”

5. Romanic Myth
• Mr. or Miss. “Right”
• French Ballads for Royal Court

6. Romanic Myth
• Mr. or Miss. “Right”
• French Ballads for Royal Court
• Arranged marriages were the “norm”

7. Romance Vs. Love
Romance
1. Produces wrong expectations

8. Romance Vs. Love
Romance
1. Produces wrong expectations
2. Emphasizes wrong things

9. Romance Vs. Love
Romance
1. Produces wrong expectations
2. Emphasizes wrong things
3. Doesn’t take advice

10. Romance Vs. Love
Romance
1. Produces wrong expectations
2. Emphasizes wrong things
3. Doesn’t take advice
4. Demands Perfection

11. Romance Vs. Love
Love
1. A commitment to consider the
other’s welfare equal.

12. Romance Vs. Love
Love
1. A commitment to consider the other’s
welfare equal.
2. Self-Discipline

13. A
disciplined
commitment
to
another s
welfare

14. Love
EQUAL to one’s own welfare = Human Love
ABOVE one’s own welfare = Christ’s Love

15. Class Titles
#1 – The Love Connection
#7 – Marriage or Divorce?
#2 – The Currency of Love
#8 – Remarriage & Renewal
#3 – Holy Sex Pt. I
#9 – Blended Families that Work Pt. I
#4 – Holy Sex Pt. 2
#10- Blended Families that Work Pt. II
#5 – The Money Trap
#11- Blended Families that Work Pt. III
#6 – Why Christians Divorce
#12- Keeping Your Spouse Happy