Studies

2015 Marriage Retreat

360 degrees of leadership

Needs to meet:

• Wives - Emotional connection
• Daughters - Consistent example
• Brothers - Personal example
• Church - Christ like example

How is your leadership in the home?

Ephesians 5:23-27

• Undeserved role, go into the role
• Have 3 take-away

Spiritual Leadership

1 Kings 21 - Ahab failed to man up

•  Ahab was weighted down BT selfishness
•  He dumped emotional baggage and checked out
•  Wife took the lead

Genesis 19 - Lot choose the wrong neighborhood

• Choose the wrong men for his daughters
• They lost respect for him; they thought he was kidding

Genesis 25 - Esau had limited spiritual insight

• He married ungodly woman
• Esau was short sight and flawed judgment
• Reject leadership, we don't do well, we need to be in the battle

Genesis 38 - Who is getting your wife attention?

• Potiphar delegated everything
• Joseph's role was doing everything aka choreplay
• Communication leader

Genesis 2:20-25 - Wife should not hunger or thirsty

Intimacy

• Rebuild intimacy with God - Never stop improving
• Rethink how we communicate
• Rework our plan for emotional connection

Emotional intelligence - How is your emotional connection?

• Perceiving emotions
• Reasoning with emotions
• Understanding emotions
• Managing emotions