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Loveology Bible Study Guide: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.
Loveology Bible Study Guide: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.
Loveology Bible Study Guide: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.
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Loveology Bible Study Guide: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.

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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:

  1. Love
  2. Marriage
  3. Sex
  4. Romance
  5. Singleness

Designed for use with Loveology Video Study 9780310688389 (sold separately).

LanguageEnglish
PublisherZondervan
Release dateFeb 4, 2014
ISBN9780310688600
Loveology Bible Study Guide: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.
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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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    Loveology Study Guide

    Copyright © 2014 by John Mark Comer

    ePub Edition © December 2013: ISBN 978-0-3106-8860-0

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    Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530

    All Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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    Cover design: Ryan Peterson

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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

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