Seasons of Love // 4 Types of Intimacy
Type: Experiential Intimacy
Type: Intellectual Intimacy
Type: Emotional Intimacy
Type: Physical Intimacy
These 4 intimacies can all be viewed from a relationship to each other and should find strength from a relationship to Jesus Christ.
Read Song of Solomon 7:10-13
Type: Experiential Intimacy
• This is the "date night" intimacy, created moments of break from daily life to be with one another
• Jesus' ministry was constantly moving, including moments in the home, but always with a place to go.
...Jesus went to the sea
...preached from a boat
...prayed in a garden
...ate in an upper room with the disciples
...taught in the synagogue
Our relationships are meant to move and share in life
Read Song of Ephesians 3:20-21
Type: Intellectual Intimacy
• Exchanging thoughts and ideas about what you care about
• Have you set a vision for your relationship, what hopes and dreams do you have?
• Jesus always had a vision for our relationship with a promise, the vision was to be united in the Kingdom of Heaven eternally.
Read Song of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Type: Emotional Intimacy
• Understanding your partner, sharing your feeling with one another, being vulnerable
• Weeks 1 and 2 of this series really spoke to this, watch online.
Read Song of Solomon 7:1-9
Type: Physical Intimacy
• This is not sexual intimacy, it is just a component of it.
• These different intimacies have been ordered in such a way to bring us here. Each intimacy is needed in order to bring us to Holy Matrimony
• We need to reclaim “Holy” in intimacy and it is God ordained that it is part of our relationship.
• At each moment in this intimacy we are brought closer to one another with powerful feelings and searching in our heart who are we and who are we with
• This is the beautiful and broken finding one another.
Read Ephesians 3:16-17
The last is Spiritual Intimacy and it is knowing that Christ has loved us in such a way that we understand intimacy because of Christ. That our love is an undeniable reflection of Jesus Christ.