What does First B Jackson teach about marriage?

At First B Jackson, the teaching on marriage starts with love as its foundation, and specifically with the kind of love Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 13. Pastor Glenn taught a full message on what makes that love last over time, working from the conviction that because both people in any marriage are sinners, grace is not optional. It is the only thing that makes a long relationship workable. He framed lasting love around four qualities: it extends grace, expresses faith, expects the best, and endures the worst. The image he used for grace was a roof covering a house, something that protects. Trusting your spouse shows up most clearly, he said, in the willingness to give a second chance.

Pastor Glenn also pressed on the forward-looking nature of love in a marriage. Love refuses to stay stuck in past failures, and what kills it is not hate but neglect. He closed with a simple word on endurance: stay put. Great people are ordinary people with extraordinary determination, and we can only learn to love by actually doing it.

Pastor Don added a complementary angle in his teaching from the Forty Days of Love series. Love in a marriage, he said, is not a duty you perform but an overflow of being deeply connected to God. He was honest about his own marriage, admitting that his idea of quality time and his wife's idea of quality time are not the same thing. Two phrases he asked the congregation to hold onto sum up the broader teaching well: love doesn't rub it in, it rubs it out, and life is not about achievement, it's about relationships.

Taught from 1 Corinthians 13:7 · 1 Corinthians 13:13 · Ephesians 4:2 · Colossians 3:14 · 1 Peter 4:8