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    Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage
    Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage
    Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage
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    Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage

    By John E Johansson

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    This is a book looking to identify the purpose of marriage, and whether or not it is really all that important. This is not your average run-of-the-mill book on the subject, but in taking a unique approach to the subject the writer seeks to find both a purpose for and a clarity of what marriage is really about. Join him as he unfolds the mystery of marriage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn E Johansson
    Release dateMar 12, 2015
    ISBN9781310385780
    Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage
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    John E Johansson

    John Johansson has been writing for Christian newsletters and blogs for over 15 years, and is now beginning to author ebooks of a Christian nature. His writings at the core look to encourage and challenge the readers to take a closer look at their walk with Christ, or lack thereof. The purpose behind what he writes is to ensure that the reader will be prepared for the soon return of Jesus for His bride, the church. While John does present some views that may be new to the reader, many of the things he writes are not new, but his approach makes it easy for the reader to understand and apply these truths in a real world setting.

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      Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage - John E Johansson

      Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage

      What is the purpose of marriage?

      Is it really all that important

      By John E. Johansson

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Copyright 2015 John Johansson – Johansson ePublishing

      Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      The Institution of Marriage

      The Parallels

      A Word to Men

      A Word to Women

      The Mystery of Women

      Dropping the Ball

      The Dreaded D Word

      Other Relationships

      Conclusion

      Preface

      Marriage. For some this word brings joy and excitement, and for others dread and anxiety. Why marriage works for one couple and not another, or why they don’t find fulfillment in their first or second marriage but do in the third, if at all, varies from one relationship to another. The reasons for this can be found in one major event or point of conflict, or in the abundance of many smaller reasons that just become unbearable to deal with. Was this what marriage is supposed to be, almost a game of hit and miss where you won’t know if you’ve truly hit the target of a successful marriage until it either collapses or one spouse passes away from this life?

      This book isn’t necessarily about how to have a successful marriage, how to salvage a marriage that is sinking like the Titanic, or even about the differences of men and women, but it’s a book to help us understand why there is this institution we call marriage, and why it’s so important that we learn to do it right. This isn’t your run of the mill book on marriage, yet it would be easy for many to quickly discount this book thinking it is like most any other book on the subject. The information you could glean from this book could be the very information you need, if properly applied, that can help make your marriage of today a success for decades to come.

      So, how is that I am writing this book? Well, the answer is really quite simple. We live in a time when the idea and perception of marriage is undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. Are these changes good, or are they bad? Do they help nurture and promote strong marriages, or do they in essence hurt and destroy it? As I’ve watched societies view of marriage shift these past several years, good or bad, I have felt compelled to write this book in an attempt to provide a foundational building block from which we can anchor to during this time, and in doing so hopefully bring some stability to a subject surrounded in turmoil most everywhere we look.

      The information I hope to unfold in this book is not new, but rather overlooked or underestimated by many. You may have read or heard about some of this before, but I’m confident that the perspectives in this book will be unique to anything you’ve heard before. What you will find are things that anyone currently in marriage, or has plans of one day getting married, can greatly benefit from if properly implemented. In fact, even those who were at one time married but are not now, they can even benefit from what you will find in this book.

      To write this book I have drawn from a variety of sources. Whether it was from the books and audio teachings of internationally recognized experts on the subject, listening to radio broadcasts and watching marriage videos, attending marriage conferences, decades of observing first hand successful and unsuccessful marriages, my own personal experience, or from research I’ve done on the subject, it is from these that I draw from as I write this book. It is my hope that as I connect the dots in this book you will find the keys to a successful relationship with your spouse. Join me as we embark upon this journey of Unfolding the Mystery of Marriage.

      The Institution of Marriage

      When we talk of the many different institutions we see throughout the world, the one that is the most prominent, the most visible, and in fact the oldest one known to man, is the institution of marriage. No matter the culture and no matter the era, the institution of marriage is one of the few threads that run between them all. The process of joining a man and woman in marriage may vary from one culture or era of time from another, and what it looks like may vary as well, but it is still an easily recognized institution in the framework of the history of mankind.

      When we look back through recorded history we find that the very first wedding took place within a garden. It wasn’t filled with a bunch of hoopla or decorated with all kinds of decorations, and it wasn’t one with a lot of people in attendance. Instead, it was a simple wedding witnessed by three and officiated by one. The wedding I’m referring to was for Adam and Eve, and the place was the Garden of Eden. This wedding of theirs isn’t the usual way weddings are done here in the west, but nevertheless that is how this one was done, affecting everyone in one way or another ever since.

      No matter where we look or where we go we see marriage. Marriage is so prominent that each of our lives has been affected by it one way or another, good or bad. We can look through history and see how cultures have attempted to redefine what marriage is, or have even tried to minimize its value and importance leading some to believe it isn’t necessary. In the process of changing the perception and importance of marriage some civilized cultures in the past have imploded and have fallen from their status and place of awe. Even now there is a push here in America to redefine what marriage is and is not, and what the final result of this push will be is yet to be determined.

      What makes the institution of marriage so important and vital to a people, no matter when or where they lived? What makes it so important that its disintegration within a society nearly guarantees the soon collapse of that same society? Usually when we think of marriage we see its purpose in one of three areas:1. to procreate and reproduce offspring; 2. to have companionship with another for life; and 3. to enjoy sexual intimacy with each other. Is this all there is to marriage, no greater purpose than the three I just mentioned? Or could there be a greater purpose for which we really haven’t grasped? There are those who believe that humanity evolved over the process of several billion years into what we now are, and for those people it would be a bit of a stretch to think that

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