I Still Do Study Guide: Growing Closer and Stronger through Life's Defining Moments
By Dave Harvey
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Dave Harvey
Dave Harvey serves as the president of Great Commission Collective, a church planting ministry in the US, Canada and abroad. In his 37 years of ministry, Dave was president of Sojourn Network; led church planting, church care, and international outreach for Sovereign Grace Churches; and served as a senior pastor for 19 years. He is the founder of AmICalled.com and writes at revdaveharvey.com. Dave serves on the board for the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF) and has traveled nationally and internationally doing conferences where he teaches Christians, trains pastors and church planters, and conducts marriage events. Dave is the author of When Sinners Say I Do; Am I Called?; Rescuing Ambition; and The Plurality Principle: How To Build and Maintain a Thriving Church Leadership Team. Married for 40 years, Dave and Kimm have four kids, six grandkids and reside in southwest Florida. (For videos or articles, visit revdaveharvey.com or follow at @revdaveharvey)
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I Still Do Study Guide - Dave Harvey
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Contents
Cover 1
Half Title Page 2
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Starting Together 7
1. Your Journey through Defining Moments 9
2. Defining Moment #1: When You Discover Brokenness Is Broader Than Sin 15
3. Defining Moment #2: The Moment of Blame 23
4. Defining Moment #3: The Moment of Weakness 31
Sticking Together 37
5. Defining Moment #4: When You Realize Family Can’t Replace Church 39
6. Defining Moment #5: When Your Spouse Suffers 47
7. Defining Moment #6: The Moment You Get
Mercy 53
8. Defining Moment #7: When You Discover Sex Changes with Age 59
Ending Together 65
9. Defining Moment #8: When Dreams Disappoint 67
10. Defining Moment #9: When the Kids Leave 75
11. Defining Moment #10: When You Learn Closure Is Overrated 81
12. When Grace Conquers Your Wasted Moments: The Death of Ivan Ilych 87
About the Author 93
Back Ads 94
Back Cover 97
CHAPTER
1
Your Journey through Defining Moments
When Kimm and I were first married, I remember being baffled by the ways I behaved and the conflicts we experienced. I remember thinking, "What’s happening here? Am I possessed? Or wait . . . is she possessed? Oh Lord, is our marriage cursed?"
Over time we discovered that saying I do
is a defining experience.
I Still Do, p. 16
Kimm and I didn’t have much preparation for marriage. In the old days, when men sported pocket handkerchiefs and women rode sidesaddle, marriage preparation seemed to be condensed into one awkward conversation with a parent before your wedding night. Nowadays, such classified information is available instantly on the web. So conversations that were once pre-wedding have been moved up, essentially, to pre-school.
As for pre-marriage training, now the awkward conversations often take place through the tag-team efforts of parents, pastors, physicians, and other counselors. Sometimes the preparation is pretty thorough. At other times it’s more like a sparkler—lit just long enough for an engaged couple to note the sparkle and sizzle before it quickly sputters out. Kimm and I had premarital counseling of this variety. And honestly, I think we missed the sparkler part.
Our premarital care consisted of one session before our wedding, and that one session was focused almost exclusively upon sex. There was no discussion of the delights or complications of sex. We were simply told that we needed to talk about it. Then our well-meaning counselor handed us a crate of cassette tapes containing messages about sex in marriage and urged us to listen. With the best intentions we could muster in the frenzy of our wedding arrangements, we promptly pitched the cassettes into the boot of our car. We figured if we had any problems with sex, we’d pop the trunk. One day, nine months later, the counselor asked for his cassettes back. No problem! They were right where we left them—sitting next to the spare tire, unopened and unused.
It’s unsettling to think how unprepared we were as we began marriage. The number of surprises we’ve encountered along the way should come as no surprise. Getting married is a defining experience. It certainly