How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

What if the commandment “you shall not commit adultery” isn’t primarily about what to avoid, but about what God is protecting? And what if the way to protect your marriage isn’t mainly about willpower, but about something much deeper?

In this message, Pastor Julie Hawkins walks through what the seventh commandment actually says about marriage, and four practical ways to protect it before the slow drift happens.

1. Why every “don’t” in the Ten Commandments is protecting something God deeply loves, and what God is protecting here: marriage as a picture of his own covenant faithfulness to us
2. The honest statistics on infidelity inside and outside the church, and why adultery almost never “just happens,” but is usually the result of a slow drift, one small boundary crossed at a time
3. Jesus’s words in Matthew 5:27-28: the heart is the real threat, and what it means to check it before temptation becomes a nest
4. Four ways to affair-proof your marriage: cherish each other, check your heart, choose connection, and chase Christ
5. A word for everyone carrying shame or pain from sexual sin or infidelity: the cross is bigger than your failure

Whether you’re married, single, divorced, or widowed, this message has something for you.

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