Watch the following video introduction to the Love Dare Bible Study by Michael Catt, Senior Pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church and Executive Producer of Fireproof.
Target Audience: Married adults—couples attending together, one spouse attending; engaged couples
Sessions: 8
Description: The Love Dare Bible Study Member Book creates a marriage-centered Bible study experience for individuals and couples. Eight small-group sessions are based around one or more movie clips from the motion picture FIREPROOF and connect couples to The Love Dare both during the session and throughout the week. It utilizes activities that create community, provide opportunities to dialog about real life in real marriage, explore and apply God¡¦s Word, and invite participants into a risky but redemptive journey.
Each session drives participants toward daily readings and applications in The Love Dare.
Session 1: Leading Your Heart - Learn difference between leading and following your heart
Session 2: The Power of Influence - Identify who/what influences you and choose godly influences instead
Session 3: Honoring and Cherishing Your Spouse - Communicate, serve, act, and live in a manner that honors spouse
Session 4: Living with Understanding - Respect and honor are foundational to living with understanding. It means choosing: "I want to understand what my spouse says, means, and feels."
Session 5: Unconditional Love - Practically demonstrate unconditional love to spouse, growing out of an abiding relationship with God
Session 6: Walking in Forgiveness - Learn about and experience firsthand the freedom and liberation in marriage that comes from living a lifestyle of forgiveness
Session 7: Building Marriage on Prayer and God¡¦s Word - Begin to place every area of life and marriage under the authority of God¡¦s Word and prayer
Session 8: Establishing a Covenant Marriage - Marriage is holy matrimony in which God is glorified. When vows are vertical, marriage honors Him and is a testimony to others.
Features:
Leader helps included
Benefits:
Participants will walk away from The Love Dare Bible Study committed to building a covenant marriage.
Ideal for
Home Small Groups
Discipleship Groups (on-campus Sunday Night/Wednesday Night)
Sunday School
Churchwide Campaigns (Multiple Formats)
Guiding Principles:
Participants will have experienced the movie either as a small group, in theatres, or as part of a churchwide showing.
Facilitator versus "leader" led
Experiential: Movie clips, discussion, case studies, interactive/discovery-oriented Bible study
Sessions refer to The Love Dare throughout.
While movie focuses on husband love-dare activities, this resource will include activities for both husbands and wives.
Recognize there will be a range of participants . . . couples attending a small group together or a spouse without their mate and marriage in crisis.
Vary small-group interaction time between individual, couples, and small-group experiences
Author Info: Michael Catt is senior pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA. Stephen and Alex Kendrick are writers of The Love Dare journal and the FIREPROOF screenplay.
