subject: God Wants Us To Have A Creative Marriage [print this page] God wants you to have a creative marriageGod wants you to have a creative marriage. He wants your marriage to reflect Christ"s relationship to the church because, the Bible says, the husband is like Jesus and the wife is like the church. Husbands are to love our wives in a self-sacrificial way. The Evil One does not want that to happen because it takes creativity to do that. He is going to bust it so we have a routine marriage -- a same- old same-old marriage, and a boring marriage. Satan does not want your family to soar so he comes after the family. The family is the building block of our culture.
The same is true in your career and the same is true in the church. Every time God creates, Satan contradicts. Every time God creates, Satan has a counterfeit. It"s everywhere. Creativity is a battle. It"s a spiritual battle.
I want you to notice something else. When I say this, it"s going to seem like a disconnect. But I will tie it back at the end, I promise you. When you think about creativity, it soars as individuals show it, right? Yes. But it really hits on all cylinders when it"s done in a team -- when it"s a team thing. You will not believe what will happen to your life when you understand team creativity.
In Genesis 1:26, the team, the trinity -- God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit -- was creating. Then you have got Moses trying to do it all by himself. Jethro, not Bodine, but Moses" father-in-law, saying, "Moses, this is wheels off, man. You have got to delegate." There were Jesus" disciples. There are teams of people throughout the Bible being creative. Team creativity is where it is happening. I know this from personal experience. Fellowship Church Grapevine is thirteen years old next weekend. During the first seven to eight years, I pretty much did all of the creativity work for the weekend message. I was it. I would spend around thirty-five hours by myself, alone, cranking out message after message.
