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The key takeaways from the Couple Discipleship Weekend retreat are to deepen the relationship between husband and wife as a couple growing together in service, to strengthen their foundation as a Christian married couple after completing basic CFC formation, and to reflect on how CFC has helped them in their marriage and family life.

The purpose of the Couple Discipleship Weekend retreat is to deepen the relationship of the husband and wife as a couple growing together in service in Couples for Christ. It aims to strengthen the foundation they built from their previous Marriage Enrichment Retreats.

The five talks that will be covered in the retreat are: 1) Heeding God's Call 2) Deepening Our Love 3) Growing in Service 4) Raising a Holy Family 5) Home on a Lampstand.

The Couple Discipleship Weekend is a retreat offered after receiving the

basic formation of CFC, specifically Marriage Enrichment Retreats 1 and 2.

This retreat aims to deepen the relationship of husband and wife as a


couple growing together in service in Couples for Christ.

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Couples for Christ
COUPLE DISCIPLESHIP WEEKEND

Proposed Schedule

Saturday

AM 8:00 - Arrival / Registration


8:30 - Worship
8:45 - Welcome / Overview
9:00 - Talk 1: Heeding God’s Call
9:45 - Couple Discussion
10:15 - Break
10:30 - Talk 2: Deepening Our Love
11:15 - Couple Discussion
11:45 - Break

NN 12:00 - Lunch
PM 1:30 - Afternoon Praise
1:45 - Energizer
2:00 - Talk 3: Growing in Service
2:45 - Couple Discussion
3:15 - Break
3:30 - Talk 4: Raising a Holy Family
4:15 - Couple Discussion
4:45 - Break
6:00 - Lord’s Day Celebration
7:00 - Dinner
8:00 - Fellowship
9:30 - Lights Out

Sunday
AM 7:00 - Breakfast
8:30 - Worship
8:45 - Opening Remarks
9:00 - Talk 5: Home on a Lampstand
9:45 - Couple Discussion
10:15 - Break
Action Planning / Sharing / Closing
10:30 - Remarks
11:00 - Eucharistic Celebration
NN 12:00 - Lunch
PM 1:00 - Home

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COUPLE DISCIPLESHIP WEEKEND
Talk 1: Heeding God’s Call

Anchor Verse: “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God
and observe it.” Luke 11:28 (NABRE)

I. Introduction

We have journeyed through a life in Couples for Christ. CFC has


brought God to be at the center of our individual, couple and family lives.
It has come as a gift, to aid our marriage and family life, so that we may
truly make a difference in our generation and society, having identified
our vision to “raise families in the Holy Spirit, renewing the face of the
earth.”

We have passed through many beautiful years of community life.


Today, we sit to reflect on how CFC has concretely helped us strengthen
our marriage and mold our families according to God’s plan of holiness.

Our Marriage Enrichment Retreat 1 (MER 1) had introduced us to


Christian marriage as a service, defined our role in this service as a
pastoral team, and enumerated our tasks as Christian husbands and
wives. It also tackled the significance of effective communication. We
likewise went through a healing of past hurting memories and actions,
and finally equipped us with concrete steps to take in building our homes
for God.

In a bid to strengthen this foundation, Marriage Enrichment Retreat 2


(MER 2) opened with identifying what makes a Christian marriage work,
the centrality of unity in our marriage, the pitfalls and foundation stones
for good communication between spouses, God’s purpose for sex in our
bid for oneness, our tasks as Christian parents, and finally invoking the
Spirit to empower our marriages.

This is Couple Discipleship Weekend, a retreat offered after receiving


the Basic Formation of CFC. Here we seek to look at how our life as a
couple serving in CFC has been a response of heeding God’s call, and by
this, finding the depth of our love for one another, our growth as a couple

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in the service, our bid to raise a holy family, and our hope to truly place
our home on a lamp-stand that will shine in the world’s darkness.

II. Walking our Talk

We look back at our years together and our efforts to truly raise a
family that follows Christ’s values and examples.
We realize that indeed Couples for Christ has taught us much, but
none of these will bear fruit until we walk these good teachings in our
lives.

The Lord has given us our life in community to help us stay firmly on
the path of a Christian family.

1) CFC has brought us together to pray with other couples wishing


to sense God’s presence more deeply in their marriages.

2) CFC has brought us together to listen to one another’s struggles


and victories, as we all face challenges in the world, keeping our
marriages and raising our children to focus on God.

3) CFC has given us many opportunities to experience grace,


strength and conviction for the path to Christ that we had taken.

All these talks, however, are useless if they fall on deaf ears. We need
to, beyond listening, put our learnings and realizations to action, no
matter how difficult. We need to decide to persevere, knowing that God
has given us CFC, because it is good for us.

III. Our Dream of Growth

God meant us as a couple to grow in faith through our marriages. We


need to make sure we are in step with God’s plan for our union, and in
step with each other in this growth.

In CFC, we had been taught the rudiments of a personal dialogue in the


one-on-one. More than the daily routine tasks of life that we need to

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coordinate with each other, God has made us realize our need to talk
about how we are growing in our relationship with God and with one
another, and how such is affecting our faith walk as a couple, responding
to God’s call to us to serve Him in CFC.

We need to talk about the following:

1) How CFC has helped us grow in our individual relationship with


God.
2) How CFC has helped us grow in our couple life with God.
3) How our serving in CFC has contributed to this spiritual growth.
4) Where we see God could be leading us.
5) What could be the implications of God’s call to us.

IV. Conclusion

We need to pause and assess our years of CFC involvement and reflect
on how this has contributed to our growing in faith and making our
marriages truly focused on the Lord and doing His will.

CFC, after all, wishes to mold us to be a true couple for Christ.

Relevant Scripture Readings:

Luke 4:18-21
1Cor 13:1-13
Eph 5:21-33

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COUPLE DISCIPLESHIP WEEKEND
Talk 1: Heeding God’s Call

Couple Discussion Guide:


1. How have we responded to God’s call for us to live as a Christian
couple?

2. In what areas of our couple life do we need to be prayed for and


counseled about?

3. How has CFC helped us in our life as a married couple?

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COUPLE DISCIPLESHIP WEEKEND
Talk 2: Deepening Our Love

Anchor Verse: For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather
of power and love and self-control. (2 Tim 1:7 NABRE)

I. Introduction

Couples for Christ, being a gift from the Lord blesses marriages. Two
individuals pledging love and faithfulness for life need God’s grace in
their union. This was God’s promise in CFC to the couples who responded
to His call – to help them truly become a couple for Christ.

The Holy Spirit worked on the personal lives of the couples, calling
them to individual repentance of sin in their lives to a renewed
relationship with God. The CLP beginnings of this process was
strengthened by the talk inputs, the discussions, friendships and
fellowship exclusive among men and among women.

As the CLP progressed, the couple had started on their individual faith
journeys, even as they shared the blessing of going through the Christian
Life Program, and later on receiving the empowerment of the Holy Spirit
to effect changes in their married life.

New friendships discovered with other couples, the men with other
brothers, and the women with other sisters, all of them wishing the
betterment of their unions and God’s strengthening grace on these,
contributed to faith development.

The role of community support was even more highlighted with the
couple’s assignment to a household, with a couple household leader and
joined by the five or six other couples. God meant them to grow together
in prayer, study, fellowship and service – their common faith walk.

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II. A Foundation of Prayer

Central to the marriage relationship is Christ’s role as the God who


draws the union to oneness. Individual human efforts in this, even with
the noblest intentions of both husband and wife, fail without the Holy
Spirit’s empowerment.

This is why it is imperative that the couple take their prayer lives
seriously. CFC provides a structure for this to commence in the couple’s
life through its covenant. But the hope is that from this covenant, prayer
will move to become a way to life. When daily prayer times are kept
individually, both husband and wife receive the grace for a strong
marriage. Individual prayer times may even inspire couple prayer and
even couple sharing on God’s messages and actions in their quiet times.

Prayer is even enhanced during the weekly CFC household meeting


when the couple members come to pray together. Here, even as
individual thanksgivings and supplications are offered, household
members may actually intercede for one another.

III. God’s Action in Couple Life

As the couple move in their faith walk, they discover greater intimacy
with God, being able to sense His voice, His nearness, His presence. CFC
again opens opportunities for couples to grow in this through the practice
of personal sharings.

Couples are encouraged to share of God’s actions in their personal


lives in their one-on-ones. These personal dialogues touch on the couples
sense of the Lord’s movement in their lives, and how they are growing in
relationship with Him and becoming conscious of how they are being
molded to holiness, becoming more and more like Christ.

As the couples freely share individually of God’s presence, they also


begin to participate more actively in their household discussions and
even in the chapter prayer assemblies. Personal witness is strongest
when either spouse get to confidently speak of the Lord’s actions in their
lives before an assembly.

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IV. The Power of Change

The Lord’s powerful presence and movement in our lives can only
deepen our love feelings for one another. The spouses grow more
expressive of marital love relationships. Patience, gentleness, self control,
peace, joy and compassion – fruits of the Spirit, are witnessed in the
personal lives of spouses, who bear Jesus in their relationship.

Not only do these manifestations of the Spirit show in the personal


ways of spouses in their dealings with one another and their children,
these are carried everywhere they go.

In handling life’s conflicts, couples empowered by the Spirit, seek to


communicate and work out differences, even as they seek God’s
intervention.

In handling life’s struggles, couples empowered by the Spirit,


persevere and move confident, knowing such situations happen, because
they are meant to bring out the best in one another.

In handling life’s challenges, couples empowered by the Spirit, pursue


greater loving, even as they stand fruitful and forge ahead in hope that
the Lord will lead them to victory.

V. Conclusion

As we allow the one true Source of Love to run our love relationship
as a couple, we experience not only grace and blessing but even greater
meaning, fullness and abundance.

Relevant Scripture Readings:


1 Cor 13:1-3
Col 3:18-21
1 Tim 3:1-7

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COUPLE DISCIPLESHIP WEEKEND

Talk 2: Deepening Our Love

Couple Discussion Guide:

1. Has prayer become a regular part of our life as a couple? Have


our prayers made us better spouses?

2. How have we grown in our communication as a couple?

3. Have we responded to God’s call to change our old ways into His
ways?

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COUPLE DISCIPLESHIP WEEKEND
Talk 3: Growing in Service

Anchor Verse: “Train yourself for devotion, for, while physical training
is of limited value, devotion is valuable in every respect, since it holds a
promise of life both for the present and for the future. This saying is
trustworthy and deserves full acceptance. For this we toil and
struggle,[b] because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the
savior of all, especially of those who believe. (1 Tim 4:7-10 NABRE)

I. Introduction

Couples grow in service. As husband and wife look at God and others
beyond themselves, they grow in greater love of God, Who blesses them
and their marriage.

A life in community with other couples struggling to make their


marriages truly Christ - centered helps spouses understand that their
unions need God to prosper; that their conflicts, struggles and challenges
are part of the process of growth towards unity, and that they can inspire
and encourage one another towards their common goal by their coming
together as community.

II. Service is Key

A central point in the couple’s growth towards greater unity and love
is getting them less and less focused on themselves, and more and more
focused on the other. It is a great help for them to discover this in service.

In CFC, the process begins when we get the couples to serve as


Christian Life Program facilitators, which eventually lead to their being
assigned as household leaders.

Taking on the household is the start of service. A husband is taught


how to take care of other husbands; a wife, how to take care of other
wives. In the process, they discover similar concerns and are placed in
situations where they work on solutions to these concerns. Alone or by

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themselves, couples will not venture on seeking answers to challenges,
because of the focus on their hurt, their pain, their brokenness - their side
of the story; the justification, their self-centeredness.

But put in a situation of pastoral leadership, as in heading a household,


couples sincerely search for answers to give other husbands and wives
who are looking for solutions to their marital conflicts and
disagreements.
Even as household leaders, couples are aware that they go through
similar situations and set these aside to find solutions to the pressing
issues of their couple-members, household leader couples grow in their
discussion, persevere in the process and even more importantly implore
God’s help in their bid to assist the couple, who they can well empathize
with, because of their own experience of marriage conflicts.

Beyond the household, there are also ministries in CFC, the Family
Ministries and the ANCOP and Social Development Programs (SDPs),
where couples are given vast opportunities to minister, to assist or to
serve other brethren, who may no longer be couples, but who
nonetheless long to experience God in a personal way in their lives.

These avenues further the couple’s outward growth from themselves


– their opinions, their desires, their wants to other’s needs, concerns and
dreams.

III. The Example of Jesus

As couples open their marriage years to service, they also grow in


greater likeness of Christ.

Christ was always clear about His purpose for coming into the world.
He came to heal the sick, give sight to the blind. He came to set the
captives free and to bring glad tidings to the poor. Christ came to serve.

Couples who serve, grow more and more in the image of Jesus.

They grow in humility. Realizing through their exposure in service


that unity in marriage works where one listens, communicates and opens

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one’s self to change, the servant couple is led to witness this growth in
their personal life as a couple, that gives them credence and integrity.

They grow in obedience. They learn the value of Paul’s words in his
epistle to the Ephesians: Husbands are to love their spouses, as Christ
loved the Church, and wives are to submit to this love of their husbands.

Christ modeled a love that was “obedient” unto death for the Church.
Obedience is to God. “Obedience unto death” means being open to risk
dying to self. This is the ideal that Christ set for marriage. Husbands are
to love with a love that is obedient to God. And wives are called to submit
to a love that obeys God.

They grow in trust. Knowing that marriage is a life-long proposal and


that we are vulnerable to weakness, temptation and sin as humans,
couples learn to trust and forgive as God continues to trust and forgive.
Trust and forgiveness in a couple’s life finds its base in prayer.

Just as a couple can only turn to God for every failure, frustration and
disappointment in marriage, deciding on forgiveness and extending trust
every time, they see and experience the same in service and ministry and
are bolstered in their faith; this is the way that Christ chose to love.

IV. Conclusion

The years spent in the Couples for Christ ministry have been years
meant by God for the couple to grow in greater knowing, loving and
serving God in one another through many others.

Relevant Scripture Readings:


1 Tim 3:1-7
1 Tim 4:6-16
Matt 16:24-27

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Talk 3: Growing in Service

Couple Discussion Guide:

1. How has service in community helped us grow outside of


ourselves?

2. How has service in community helped unity in our marriage?

3. How has service in community helped us grow in greater likeness


of Christ?

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Talk 4: Raising a Holy Family

Anchor Verse: “We know that all things work for good for those who
love God, who are called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28
NABRE)

I. Introduction
It is our common interest in the family that attracted us, brought us
and made us stay in Couples for Christ.
The Lord has been faithful to us in CFC through all these years. He has
given us a vision to be “Families in the Holy Spirit, renewing the face of
the earth!”
And that vision, we had been privileged to witness unfold through
CFC’s years of commitment to God’s service. We had in fact raised a new
generation of families, who will continue the task of protecting,
promoting, and preserving family for the future.

II. Strengthening Family


The family is God’s plan for the world.
From the very beginning, God created our first parents, a man and a
woman, Adam and Eve, to procreate, fill the earth, and subdue it.
Christ came into the world through Mary and was fostered by St.
Joseph. Theirs was the example of a Holy Family.
Couples for Christ is about growing a couple to be true images of Christ
in the world, servant to one another, servant to their children and servant
to others – washing other’s feet, as Christ Himself gave us example.

Couples for Christ raises the men in the family as husbands and
fathers. They are taught to be responsible protectors, providers and
priests of their homes and grow these to truly be domestic Churches.
Maturing in this role, they are seen to eventually take responsibility for
God’s people, in Church and society.

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This is the reason why the wife and husband have specific roles. The
role of wife as support to the family head, her husband is crucial. And so
is the obedience of the children to the authority vested by God in
parenthood. The family will not thrive and its purpose not accomplished
when there is no respect and reverence for the roles given by God to each
member of the domestic Church.

III. Beyond CFC Renewal


God had meant CFC as a gift to renew couples and focus them on God’s
plan to build the Church of the Home.

But as God’s plan extends to family beyond just the couple, in order to
truly enable the home as domestic Church, God has gifted CFC with the
Family Ministries, specifically Kids for Christ, Youth for Christ and Singles
for Christ.
God had provided these ministries to help couples concretize the CFC
vision.
These ministries were to provide Christian environmental support
for our growing children at whatever life stage they are in.

KFC includes our children who are 4-12 years old. YFC includes our
teenage sons and daughters of 13 years up to their young adult years of
20 and 21. SFC is for our children who have graduated into adulthood
and are preparing to take their place in the world as professionals,
couples, religious, heads of families – the future generation of Church.

The Family Ministries are founded on four basic principles of Fun,


Friendship, Faith and Freedom. As they prepare themselves for the
challenge of adulthood and the future, God has generously provided that
our children grow together in ministry and experience at their own level,
the same love for God, love for neighbor, and growing in service that we
are experiencing.

Consistent with their young attitude, the Family Ministries provide a


place for Christian pastoral growth for our children that is characterized
by fun, builds on friendships, focuses on faith, while allowing them to
experience real freedom in seeing Christ in their lives.

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As they grow by their respective ministries, our children are enabled
to respond more fully to the vision of truly building a home for God and
raising a family in the Holy Spirit.

IV. Integration and Mission


God has been so good and faithful. Knowing that we will, on our own,
be unable to raise our children to be truly godly, He has given us the
Family Ministries as gift to accomplish His mission for our family.
Realizing this, it is important that we, as parents, bring our children to
understand, that beyond their involvement in the various Family
Ministries, (that we encourage and are happy about) they have the duty
beyond that to witness to what they learn in these ministries, to truly
building our home for God. This is our common task as family and we
need the full support of all family members for its realization.

It is our role as parents to get the children to discuss what they will
contribute to making this happen. We need to make ensure that every
family member sees the importance of our one goal of truly making
family work. We also need to facilitate the empowerment of each of our
children for the responsibilities that they have been tasked to carry.
Above all, we need to pray together for God’s blessing on our sincerest
intentions.

CFC has also supported the single and unmarried, married yet
separated, widows or widowers, and mature men and women of varied
circumstances in the Servants of the Lord and Handmaids of the Lord
respectively.

V. Conclusion

We have dedicated our years to raising our families in Christ through


Couples for Christ. We have been commissioned beyond our homes, to be
witnesses to the ends of the earth. God has given us the empowerment to
even bring all His children around the world to being a family in Christ.

Relevant Scripture Readings:


1 Peter 1:13-25
1Thes. 4:1-12
Eph 6:1-4

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Talk 4: Raising a Holy Family

Couple Discussion Guide:

1. How has CFC helped us raise a better family?

2. Are we actively involved in the ministry lives of our children?

3. Have our children grown prepared for the task of raising a


Christian family?

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Talk 5: Home on a Lampstand

Anchor Verse: “No longer shall the sun be your light by day, nor shall
the brightness of the moon give you light by night; Rather, the LORD will
be your light forever, your God will be your glory.” (Isaiah 60:19
NABRE)

I. Introduction

God has called us to empowerment in realizing the mission of raising


“Families in the Holy Spirit renewing the face of the earth.”

This is a goal that God has enabled us to start, but will definitely go
beyond our lifetime. To renew the face of the earth means delivering
people from the clutches of sin that is in the world. It means announcing
the salvation that Christ has come and died for. It means conquering the
world for Christ. Many are still ignorant of this grace.

The work tasked on CFC’s shoulder goes beyond teaching and


preaching. It goes beyond sharing faith and miracles. God’s Word and
work will thrive on concrete witness. It means translating faith in action.
It means Christ needs to be seen in each and every one of us. We must
decrease and He must increase.

When everyone in the world acknowledges the presence of Christ


lived in our personal witness, then the task of renewing the face of the
earth will have been accomplished.

This will necessitate broadcasting, an announcement, a proclamation


– not hiding God’s work in a bushed basket, but placing it instead on a
lampstand, for its light to shine in the darkness.

II. Massive and Global

Since 1981, Couples for Christ has raised husbands and wives to build
their marriages and homes for God. The work started with 16 couples.

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Today, there are ten times as many countries and territories where the
Lord has enabled the seeding of CFC.

God has enabled a massive work through the establishment of both


the Family and Social Ministries. Initially aimed at providing Christian
environmental support for the children of our CFC couples, the Family
Ministries opened its doors to kids, youth and singles from non- CFC
families, finding a door towards further evangelization. The kids who
were attracted to KFC’s singing in the parish choir, the youth who came
into YFC through school camps and the singles who were invited by the
single children of CFCs all offered opportunities for God’s grand work to
thrive and prosper. By then, pathways to new CFC homes were
established. The Family Ministries also included elderly men and women,
doing faith walk alone, cast in various circumstances. They too provided
unique chances for CFC to tap into all kinds of families.

The Social Ministries also signaled another evangelization venue.


Whether we tapped on society’s sectors, doing the CLP’s in the
government agencies, industrial and business corporations, the
educational institutions, or the prisons, the military and overseas
workers, or among professionals such as doctors and lawyers, God’s
work flourished. These avenues again pointed to other families who may
just be waiting for a golden opportunity to encounter God’s Word.

III. Pushing Deep

We in CFC, are challenged to bring the same love and care that God has
lavished us with to the bereft of the world. We had initially put in efforts
to help alleviate the poor, this expression of God’s love and care,
responding to the material urgencies that stare us on our faces, even as
the poor also hunger for God’s direction and value.

We further opened opportunities for health, education, livelihood and


even drug reform to sustain the beginnings of newly found hope that we
engaged many or all sectors of society to participate in, the poor, being
our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Recognizing the need to bring these value initiatives to permanence,


we have further facilitated their organization into community

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associations tasked to continue the work of furthering the good welfare
of all; in the long run enabling their transformation through Christian
values education from beneficiary to benefactor, victims to victor.

Beyond this, we invite them again to a renewed life in Christ. Having


been helped to regain their physical bearings for life, we do not hesitate
to reiterate, that our end purpose is really a transformation of heart in
Christ. We have been praying all along for this renewal. And in God’s
appointed time, such will come to pass.

IV. Christ is Home

Just as we in CFC, have been led to the CLP and CFC, and through these
have experienced the fullness of relationship with God and neighbor,
paving the way for us to truly come home, our work among the massive
poor of the world is also geared towards their coming home in Christ and
finding a home’s place in His heart.

Reaching out to the poor through education, health, values formation,


drug reform are but beginnings. The work goes much, much deeper than
that. It is the work of building God’s people from the ravaged, broken and
pained spirits that life’s cruelties, crosses and difficulties have scarred
them with - to believe in themselves once again, to dare to love others
once again, and to walk home to the Lord’s embrace.

This is the gigantic work of family that CFC is tasked with. From raising
their own family in Christ to serve other families, and in effect bring the
entire family of God on earth under the footstool of Christ- truly “Families
in the Holy Spirit, renewing the face of the earth.”

V. Conclusion
God has graciously given us CFC, to prepare us and mold us to truly be
a light in the world shining brightly on a lampstand.

Relevant Scripture Readings:


Matt 5:13-16
Eph 5:1-14
1 Jn 1:5-10

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Talk 5: Home on a Lampstand

Couple Discussion Guide:

1. Is our home a true witness of Christian family life?

2. Have our family members found their places in community?

3. Have we inculcated in our children an active compassion for the


poor?

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The Couple’s Vow

Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for making us come to this awakening. We
lift up to You all the love in our hearts, realizing how You had gifted us
with Couples for Christ to enable, enrich and empower our union so
that this marriage, which You have ordained may truly renew the face
of the earth.

We are grateful that You opened our hearts to heed the call. We are
humbled that You lead us to a deepened love, even as we took on the
service just for You.

We are touched that You caused us to even grow as Your true children
in the service that we many times do half-heartedly and grudgingly.

We are awed by Your plan to raise us up as a holy family, even with


our many faults, omissions and sins.

And even as we continue to doubt, fear, and lack trust, we marvel at


Your dream of setting us, as a model for all the world to behold – our
home on a lampstand.

Grant us the strength, the love, and the wisdom we need from each
other and the continuing guidance of this community that You have
called us to, so that we may truly give You back the glory through this
blessed union.

As a sign of this pledge, I invoke Your blessing upon my dear spouse,


my partner, the one You have chosen to bring me Your love,
(name of spouse).

(Spouses make the sign of the cross each other’s forehead.)

Amen.

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COUPLE DISCIPLESHIP WEEKEND
FEEDBACK FORM

1. What in the Couple Discipleship talks need further elaboration?

a. Talk # 1 Heeding the Call

b. Talk # 2 Deepening Our Love

c. Talk #3 Growing in Service

d. Talk # 4 Raising a Holy Family

e. Talk #5 Home on a Lampstand

2. Was the time schedule well distributed? Did we have enough time
for the couple discussion?

3. Were the couple discussion guides given, relevant?

4. Will you suggest that speakers only have their wives as sharers to
emphasize the marriage enrichment aspect of the event?

5. How do you suggest that the action plans be followed up?

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