Unit 3: Love Needs to be Expressed

by Georg & Christine Schubert

Content

How Do We Know That We Are Loved?
Love Must Be Felt
The Five Languages of Love
Avoiding Misunderstandings
Love Is About the Other Person
Discovering the Love Language of Your Spouse and Children
Communication Bridges the Gap
How Does Verbal Communication Work?
Listening — A Valuable Gift
Making Sure Your Spouse Feels Understood
Different Levels of Communication

Personal Testimonies

About Priorities and Trust — Life in a Goldfish Bowl
You Can Be a Mom Once!
Interview With Keith and Marilyn Hamilton (REAPP)

Key Phrases

To appreciate someone means to express their value or worth - in other words, to "treasure" them.
If my spouse or child expresses and experiences love in a different way than I do, I need to learn his or her love language.
A request makes a way for love to be expressed, a demand cuts the way off from love.
Relationships develop through communication.
Human beings have a deep need to be understood.
The key lies in both people truly waiting to understand each other.

Reading sample

You can only be mom once

We do not get a second chance to parent our children. There is a lot of life still remaining for work and ministry after the children are grown and have left home. These are some of the things I've come to realize in this season of my life, and they help me to concentrate on being a mom – it is the most important job of my life.

About Priorities and Trust – Life in a Goldfish Bowl

In 1980, when we first entered missions, one of the first things God taught us was about the importance of the family unit in the Kingdom of God. We recognized that if the principles of relationship did not work in our family, then we didn’t have the authority to export those principles elsewhere. Family was our first priority. To win the world for Christ, but lose our own family in the process didn’t make sense to us.