Great adventure session 3: marriage issues
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This document discusses answering life's big questions of identity, purpose, and destiny by finding adventure in key areas of life. It presents three main adventures as reproducing the family, fighting for a noble cause, and experiencing spiritual life. Work should serve these adventures rather than being an end in itself. Finding adventure in family involves making it fun rather than a grind. One can discover their calling by finding things that make them come alive and pursuing a cause they want to live for through man-size adventures and hobbies that bring joy.
Great adventure session 3: marriage issues
- 2. Three Questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?
- 3. Three Questions Who am I? I am a man created by God. Why am I here? I am a man commissioned by God. Where am I going? I am a man who will ultimately face God.
- 4. Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it . . . ADVENTURES DEFINED AS The Family To Reproduce Adventure Life God said, Be In my children fruitful and multiply TEAMMATES KEY WORDS A Wife Understanding, Hands On Involvement, & Intimacy OUTCOME KEY SCRIPTURES Legacy / I have no greater joy Joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. 3 John 4 Noble Cause To Fight For A LikeCalling, Fit, Energy / Adventure Better Life Minded Design, & Deep God said, And make this Partners Contributions Satisto the World faction Subdue world better for the earth others I know that there is nothing better for a man than to rejoice and to do good in ones lifetime. Eccl 3:12 Man Size To Enjoy Life - Friends Explore, Fun / I have seen that nothing Adventures Especially Challenge, & Great is better than that man Men Thrills Memories should be happy in his God blessed For myself activities. them . . . Eccl. 3:22 Spiritual Adventures God . . . To experience Spiritual Life and have more than this life alone offers. God Faith Love Worship Follow Peace / Eternal Life I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly. John 10:10
- 5. A. These last two weeks have surfaced a lot of intense feelings in me. Im not enjoying life as I should; I feel burdened by too much responsibility; I work too much; work consumes too much of me. Life is not an adventure . . . Help!
- 6. B. You said last week, Our work is to be a means to these three adventures (not an end to them). Can you elaborate? I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities. Ecclesiastes 3:22 Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life, and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all ones labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. Ecclesiastes 5:18
- 7. C. When is Mens Fraternity going to help me find my adventure?
- 8. D. How do you make your family an adventure? Mine feels more and more like a grind. Wheres the adventure in family?
- 9. E. How do I find those things that make me come alive?
- 10. F. I would like to have a cause to live for. How do I go about finding one?
- 11. G. How can I find some man size adventures to put the fun back into my life?
- 12. H. Im in a job; Im doing good; Im making good money, but I just dont like what I do. Im gong through the motions and I hate that. What should I do?
- 13. I. Im a young man just getting started. Life seems exciting enough to me now. How can I avoid ending up where most of you old guys seem to be?
- 14. J. How religious are we going to be in here?