Marriage Tune-Up | Fidelity | Part 4

FIDELITY: Protecting Love
Marriage Tune-Up | Part 4
Senior Pastor Keith Stewart
March 16, 2025

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If the statistics are to be believed, somewhere between 20-40% of all marriages will experience the heartache of infidelity. That’s a sobering reality. But that’s also why it’s vitally important to do a relationship check-up. What are the signs of vulnerability that we need to look for? How do you protect yourself and your marriage from life’s ultimate betrayal? What are the essentials to keeping a marriage growing and strong? That’s what we’ll discover in this message about fidelity and how to protect love. 

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Have you or someone you care about ever gone through the experience of adultery? How did they or how would you describe it? Did the relationship survive? If not, why not? If it did, how?
 
2. Pastor Keith talked about the environment that creates vulnerability to an affair; indifference, intensity and isolation. Go back over the message notes and share what you took away from this part of the message. Where are you strongest? Where are you weakest? What would you suggest to someone struggling with one or more of these areas of vulnerability?
 
3. Understandably, most people are deeply disturbed by sexual infidelity. But it is often the emotional entanglement that determines the difficulty of breaking free of an illicit relationship. At the same time, there are likely far more people who have been emotionally unfaithful than have been sexually unfaithful to their spouse. Why do you think this is so? How do people justify it in their minds? Why is this sort of bond so difficult to break? What precautions do you take to ensure this doesn’t happen to you?
 
4. As Pastor Keith wrapped up the message, he described the four fidelities of marriage as; to a person, to a vow, to a process of intimacy, and to a calling. Take some time and recap all four fidelities. Which stood out to you most? In which area do you need to grow? What steps will you take? How could you encourage your mate or other couples in regard to the four fidelities?
 
5. What was your biggest takeaway from this message? How did that affirm you? Correct you? Inform you? Guide you? Encourage you?