1. What is a Biblical Marriage?1
What is a Biblical Marriage?

2. Sacred Families
Marriage
Parenting
Home

3. 1. Knowledge of Self
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Genesis 2:18-20

4. Social Readiness Direction Conviction Independence
1. Knowledge of Self
Social Readiness
Direction
Conviction
Independence

5. Emotional Readiness Need Willingness Commitment 1. Knowledge of Self
Social Readiness
Emotional Readiness
Need
Willingness
Commitment

6. 2. Knowledge of Partner
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” - Genesis 2:21-23

7. 2. Knowledge of Partner Singleness Unity Knowledge Dating Pre-arranged
Courting
Knowledge

8. Reasons for Sex 2. Knowledge of Partner Confirm commitment
Express loyalty
Surrender self
Establish family
Comfort emotionally
Physical pleasure
Play

9. Elements of Biblical Marriage
Knowledge of Self
Knowledge of Partner
Unity

10. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
- Genesis 2:24-25

11. 3. Unity
Separation
“Can’t cleave until you leave.”

12. Permanence Divorce is not an option, it’s a failure
3. Unity
Separation
Permanence
Divorce is not an option, it’s a failure
You give up singleness, not identity.

13. Intimacy Means transparency, vulnerability Adam and Eve had great sex
3. Unity
Separation
Permanence
Intimacy
Means transparency, vulnerability
Adam and Eve had great sex

14. D C B A Sexual Intimacy Commitment to Unity Knowledge of Other
Knowledge of Self