Zemke Posted December 21, 2018 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,028 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 451 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/24/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted December 21, 2018 5 hours ago, Billiards Ball said: I apologize, I'm not trying to be contentious, or rude. I am passionate that people reach out when they see signals, sin can be prevented that way. That's fine, understood. I hadn't looked at the OP as dealing with struggles in sin but as it was stated, to be an encouragement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoniSteele Posted September 19, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 130 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 124 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted September 19, 2019 On 11/21/2018 at 2:45 PM, ContinuingCorletta said: How can I as a single person be an encouragement to married people in the church without getting in the way? Talk with couples, pray with them for their marriages and their children if they have them, offer to babysit their kids so they can have much needed time for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prycejosh1987 Posted July 11, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,176 Content Per Day: 0.85 Reputation: 126 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/07/2020 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/29/1987 Share Posted July 11, 2020 On 11/21/2018 at 7:45 PM, ContinuingCorletta said: How can I as a single person be an encouragement to married people in the church without getting in the way? It depends on what you mean by getting in the way. Just ask about the relationship with the same sex in private. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figure of eighty Posted July 12, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 241 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 1,558 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 872 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 11/23/2018 at 10:02 PM, ContinuingCorletta said: In their marriage and in their faith. My friend is married I am not. I love the marriage she has-- not in a coveting way but I can truly tell her husband loves her and she loves him and thats a beautiful thing as well as rare. If she comes to me with issues I reassure her theyre not as bad as they seem and to talk it out with her hubs and his reaction will surprise hrr in a good way and they're always okay. In addition to being an encouraging positive ear to listen. Pray for them as well. I do the above for my friend but defintely need to pray more. I love the love they have for each other. Its beautiful when it actually works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ContinuingCorletta Posted July 14, 2020 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 144 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 590 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 854 Days Won: 2 Joined: 01/10/2018 Status: Offline Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 On 7/11/2020 at 8:03 PM, Figure of eighty said: My friend is married I am not. I love the marriage she has-- not in a coveting way but I can truly tell her husband loves her and she loves him and thats a beautiful thing as well as rare. If she comes to me with issues I reassure her theyre not as bad as they seem and to talk it out with her hubs and his reaction will surprise hrr in a good way and they're always okay. In addition to being an encouraging positive ear to listen. Pray for them as well. I do the above for my friend but defintely need to pray more. I love the love they have for each other. Its beautiful when it actually works. Thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonerAndy Posted July 15, 2020 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 19 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 693 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 396 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/28/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 15, 2020 On 11/21/2018 at 2:45 PM, ContinuingCorletta said: How can I as a single person be an encouragement to married people in the church without getting in the way? Very carefully. Honestly it would be better to have married people, who have some experience in marriage to speak into married people's lives. But you can do it. You just have to be careful and mindful of what you are doing. There are no hard fast rules. You just have to know the limits of your own knowledge on the matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ContinuingCorletta Posted July 19, 2020 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 144 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 590 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 854 Days Won: 2 Joined: 01/10/2018 Status: Offline Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 On 7/14/2020 at 11:01 PM, LonerAndy said: Very carefully. Honestly it would be better to have married people, who have some experience in marriage to speak into married people's lives. But you can do it. You just have to be careful and mindful of what you are doing. There are no hard fast rules. You just have to know the limits of your own knowledge on the matter. Thank you for your encouragement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted July 20, 2020 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 186 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,242 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,653 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted July 20, 2020 Ask them to meet you for lunch sometime. Or ask the meet the wife. Call her only the phone, not him. Don't engage the husband as much so she won't perceive you as a threat. I have a lot of advice for married women and a little for men as well, if they express that they are having problems. Tell them to list the things that first attracted you to that person. I might say his eyes, his crazy sense of humor, the unique things he does and pranks--he is fun to be with and life is never boring. Sometimes they things that bug you at first become the things you can laugh about later. You marry the whole package and those thing that bug you are a part of the whole. They would be them if they weren't that way. List the ways in which you express love to each other. This one we did at a marriage retreat and his top reply was that he lets me eat onions! I would never have dreamed. Another he listed was the long hours he worked to provide for me. I had thought that was because he wanted to stay away from me so it completely changed my attitude. 1 Peter 3 in the Amplified version really helped my attitude toward marriage. Ephesians 5:22-33 helped my husband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heybro Posted July 20, 2020 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 19 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,360 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 2,139 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted July 20, 2020 If I have misinterpreted the OP, I apologise, if you are wanting to encourage married folk Corletta, just continue being who you are already, there is no "new hat" you have to put on for them, or anyone else for that matter, God bless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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