Loveology Bible Study Guide: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.
By John Mark Comer and Jay Fordice
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In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve.
And ever since we’ve been picking up the pieces.
Loveology is a theology of love from God’s point of view.
The five sessions start with God’s design for marriage and works backward, dealing with sexuality, romance, singleness, and what it means to be male and female. Pastor and writer John Mark Comer shares about what is right in male/female relationships—what God intended in the Garden. And about what is wrong—the fallout in a post-Eden world.
The Loveology video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately) is for anyone who wants to learn what the Scriptures have to say about sexuality and relationships and for people who want to ask the why questions and get intelligent, grace-and-truth answers.
As you walk through this five-week study, you will come to better understand what God fully intended back in the garden. By comprehending the brilliance behind God’s original plan for love and marriage and sex and romance—if we can redefine that fuzzy, amorphous, confusing word “love” and look at it through the lens of Jesus—your marriages and relationships will be radically altered as a result.
This study guide contains video notes, individual or group reflection questions, and between session personal applications to enhance your journey through the video study.
Sessions include:
- Love
- Marriage
- Sex
- Romance
- Singleness
Designed for use with Loveology Video Study 9780310688389 (sold separately).
John Mark Comer
John Mark Comer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, Live No Lies, Practicing the Way, and four previous books. He's also the founder and teacher of Practicing the Way, a simple, beautiful way to integrate spiritual formation into your life and community. Prior to starting Practicing the Way, he spent almost twenty years pastoring Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, and working out apprenticeship to Jesus in the post-Christian West. Most importantly, he is husband to T and father to Jude, Moses, and Sunday.
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Contents
Introduction
How to use this study
Session 1
Love
Session 2
Marriage
Session 3
Sex
Session 4
Romance
Session 5
Singleness
Insight for leaders
About the author
Introduction
The human race can take credit for a lot of things, but love isn’t one of them.
Marriage and sexuality. Romance and dating. Masculinity and femininity. It was all part of God’s creation. Marriage wasn’t manufactured by society. Love wasn’t designed by humans. It all came from God’s brilliant imagination. Straight from his Genesis story.
We are the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve. We carry the same DNA. We were designed for deep, meaningful, intimate relationships. We were set up to love. But somewhere along the way, just like Adam and Eve, we lost sight of what it all should look like.
Love is beautiful. It’s hard and painful and arduous at times. But it is beautiful. And deep down, we know it is well worth the risk.
As you engage this five-week study, it is my hope that you will come to better understand what God intended back in the Garden. Before the forbidden fruit. Before the serpent. Before the fig leaves. If we can comprehend the brilliance behind God’s original vision for love and marriage and sex and romance — if we can redefine that fuzzy, amorphous, confusing word love
and look at it through the lens of Jesus — our marriages and relationships and lives will be reshaped from the ground up.
John Mark Comer
How to use this study
This is a five-week study on the theology of love based on the book Loveology by John Mark Comer. You can go through this study alone, but it was designed to be