50 QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU SAY “I DO”.

Fifty Questions To Answer Before Saying “I DO”

Welcome to an adventure in learning about yourself and your prospective partner!
Hopefully you will benefit from the time invested in filling out this little questionaire. The questions are intentionally hard and yes/no answers are few. But, you get out what you put in kinda like marriage! So please be diligent and please be as honest as you can. These forms are entirely confidential and will be disposed of after use, so feel free to risk it!

May the Lord bless and reward you with a great marriage!

IMPORTATNT: (Please copy and paste these questions, print them out and answer them. Bring them to your pre-marriage sessions we have scheduled.)

PART 1
1. How much have you talked about the issues which arise after marriage?

2. Are you a Christian?
Is your mate?

3. Is there any challenge to this marriage? (Divorce, addictions, pregnancy,etc.?) If any, what has been
done about it??

4. What is your understanding of a marriage covenant?

5. What are your temperaments? (i.e., Sanguine, Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholy)

6. Why do you want to get married?

7. Do you like each other? ( It is assumed that you are in love.)

8. What irritates you most in your mate’s conduct?

9. Are you gratified by your mate’s manners?

10. Do. you treat strangers better than you treat family members?

PART 2
11. How do you treat your mother and father?

12. How do you like your prospective in-laws?

13. Are you easily offended?

14. Do you have a sense of humor?

15. Do you believe anyone should help you financially?

16. What is your attitude about the wife working outside the home?

17. Who will handle the ckeck book?

18. Are you going to pool all your resources?

19. How generous are you?

20. What is your plan for spending?

PART 3
21. What is your attitude towards debt?

22. How will you handle reverses? ( Unemployment, sickness, etc.)

23. Where will you live?

24. Do you know the difference between sex and love?

25. What will you do if you discover one partner is more highly sexed than the other?

26. What books have read on the subject of sex?
On marriage in general?

27. What would you do if you discovered that your mate was romantically interested in another person?

28. When do you plan to have a child?
How many children?

29. What is your feeling about birth control?
Are you well advised?

30. Are you flexible?

PART 4
31. Do you have same interests?

32. What is your attitude toward household chores and who does them?

33. What do you expect of your mate?

34. What does your mate expect of you?

35. How do you act during confrontation?
Why?

36. How does your mate act during confrontation?
Why?

37. Do you identify one’s success and/or failure as success and/or failure for both?

38. How will you handle criticism from your mate?

39. Do you believe in careful, sensitive listening?
Are you good at it?

40. Do you believe in talking over matters and sharing in decision making for the family?

PART 5
41. Do you believe in counselors to help you solve personal problems?

42. What are your long range goals?

43. What are your short range goals?

44. When did you have a physical check up?
What were the results?

45. Where do plan to go to church?

46. How will you treat your religious differences?

47. Are you willing to leave each other to God?

48. What is your concept of leadership in the home and family?

49. If you could change one thing about your mate, what would it be?
Why?

50. Do your parents (and friends) favor this marriage?

FINAL ARRANGEMENTS
Have you made all arrangements for the wedding?

Who is in your wedding party?

Where will the ceremony be?

What Time is the wedding and what time is the reception?

Have all the financial plans for the wedding be arranged?

Have you put together an outline of what you would like the wedding ceremony to look like?

May God bless as you begin this journey together.

Pastor Steve and Brenda

http://www.discoveryprescott.com

Dedication Of Another Soul

Discovery Church, Discovery Expeditions

Arizona Hot Springs

Last week we did a hike in/boat out trip to the Arizona Hot Springs.

This is a great, 3.25-mile hike to hot springs near the Colorado River. The route runs down a deep, narrow, geologically interesting canyon for 2.75 miles to the Colorado River, turns to run downstream for 0.5 miles to the next major canyon, and ascends that canyon for about 5 minutes to a 20-ft waterfall and a ladder. Climbing the ladder brings hikers to the hot springs. the water temp is 110 F at its source, decreasing as it flows down the canyon. At the waterfall about 95 F.

Sauna Cave is about 1/2 mile from Hoover Dam.

The Kayak trip is about 7 mile from the Arizona Hot Springs to Willow Beach

Thank you Ryan and Mattie Smith and Tierra Wild for a great time at the Arizona Hot Springs .
http://www.tierrawild.com/

One side note; I was awakened around 6:18 a.m. by a small 2.0 earthquake 8km E of Henderson, Nevada.

What a great way to enjoy the Canyon.

Life experiences

You can manage this.

This is the view out my backdoor this morning while I was headed to church today and I thought to myself…”We never see the entire stretch of the road from any one point. Life is not a long, straight path – the unfamiliar path clearly visible – it is a winding and undulating lane. ‘Come on,’ Life seems to say, showing us just one little bit of the track, ‘you can manage this – and now this – and now this again!’ –#weseethroughaglassdarkly.

Discovery Church

DISCOVERY REFLECTS ON 2014 IN PICTURES AND STILL IT IS NOT ENOUGH

Thank you Discovery and friends for a challenging but fruitful first full year of doing life together.
Brenda and I love what God has put together and how each and everyone of you make up the tapestry of something that is one of a kind.
Thank you for your originality.
Thank you for your compassion.
Thank you for being contributors not just consumers.
Thank you for being risk takers and lovers of God’s creation.
Thank you for trusting us.
Thank you for gathering with a community of faith, hope and love.
Thank you for trying a “new model” of doing “church”.
Thank you giving others hope who have given up on church.
We so look forward to 2015 and all the amaZINGness that you bring to our lives.

Simply thank you.

http://www.discoveryprescott.com

Steve and Brenda Lummer (justlikesummerwithan”L”)