#aspectsoflove

[boobz-n-beerz]

elliot erwitt aspect of love - california 1955

[and-above-all-else]

The Pursuit of Parenthood

Part of our responsibility as believers is to preserve and even help to  resore the image of God in human beings. We are to protect, wherever we can, God’s masterpieces form harm and to see to restore human beings to their true selves, in line with God’s creation plan. That is our rationale for preaching the gospel: we are seeking to bring eternal restoration of human beings; it is also the rationale for all Christian philanthropy, for medicine, for social care in Christ’s name, for every good thing we seek to do to preserve and to restore God’s image in human beings.

- Aspects of Love by William Philip

[and-above-all-else]

The road to marriage and the relationship to marriage

Your job too, the purpose of your creation is to serve Him, is to serve His kingdom. And if to fulfil the calling from God for your life you need a helper from God, a marriage partner, God will arrange it. The Sovereign Lord will provide that helper for you, you can trust Him. Seek first His kingdom, and all these things that He knows you need will be added to you. That does not necessarily mean, of course, all the things you want- but if we believe Jesus and trust Him, it does mean all the things we need,

A partner in marriage, which exists for serving the kingdom of God, must be a fellow worker who will help your service.

---

Submission is a privilege, it is for the Lord’s sake you are doing it.

The question is whether Christ deserves your submission to His path and to His command. 

Marriage was created by God, and redeemed for us in Christ, so that people might see something on earth so beautiful that it speaks eloquently of the greatness of God’s love, and the joyful purpose of His grace in winning a bride for his Son. May that be our vision for married life: that people will see our lives of glad and rightly ordered partnership, serving Christ together as one, and something of the beauty and mystery of Christ’s redeeming love will shine forth to them. May our Christian marriages be ones that preach the gospel of grace just by what they are!

- Aspects of Love by William Philip

[and-above-all-else]

The reason for marriage

The face-to-face romantic erotic love of marriage is there for the side-by-side task of kingdom service.

If God’s gift to you is marriage, it is not for your salvation, but for your better service. So don’t seek salvation in marriage. Seek the service of God’s kingdom, and if marriage will truly help you in service of the kingdom, God will give you that. You can trust Him.

- Aspects of Love by William Philip

[and-above-all-else]

The Foundation of Friendship

What Friendship Demands

So if a friendship is born out of shared love, then the nature and the quality of friendship are going to be shaped by the importance of what it is that they share. And for Christians that shared 'something' is a shared love for Christ Himself, a shared desire to love Him and to serve Him. That means that a friendship born out of this shared love, this shared passion, this shared zeal, will be the highest quality of friendship we are capable of. 1. Constancy and commitment 2.  Candour

”A good test, I think, of a right attitude is to ask yourself, do you in any way feel an eagerness to correct your friend on this matter? Do you in away way feel satisfied confronting your friend about something? If you do, then you are probably not the person to speak to them, or it is not the time. But if you find yourself agonising about it, desperate to do anything other than talk to your friend, longing that that somebody else would do this, then very probably now is the time, and you are the person and God is laying that burden of responsibility upon you.”

3. Christlikeness

Bearing pain is a big part of the cost of real friendship because the people who give us the highest pleasure and happiness in life are also able to inflict on us the greatest pain. Often that means our closest friends and family. Do not bemoan your lack of such friends, determine instead to be such a friend to many- a friend marked by real constancy with commitment, by candour with real care, and by Christ-likeness with real cost.

- Aspects of Love by William Philip

[hayleysprout13]

I’ve had @lilyjcollins book on my to be read pile for ages but I am so floored by her incredible performance in #LesMiserables on #bbcone that I just had to pick up her memoir #Unfiltered. I started it last night before I saw #AspectsofLove and it’s such a chatty and relatable book. I’m only 30 or so pages into it but I can’t wait to get stuck into the rest of it. #books #bookstagram #booklover #bookish #lilycollins #memoir #nakedhardback (at Southwark Playhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/BspvvXLnG4V/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1juvg4pt2is9j

[wendyleepurdy]

With Caitlin and Victoria. #AspectsOfLove #SydneyPhotoDiary (at Hayes Theatre Co) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsSUWOyHUOd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kbtle92mdw44

[wendyleepurdy]

Team Aspects: New alter ego: Bernie #aspectsoflove #aspectsinoz #hayestheatre https://hayestheatre.com.au/event/aspects-of-love/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSa31EHZzi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ickrq1rqc7g2