After the Wedding
Learning to Build, Love, Fight, Forgive, and Grow Together
By Will Bourne · Bourne Again Media LLC
The wedding is followed by ordinary days.
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The wedding is followed by ordinary days. Two people must learn how to share work, hear a concern, remain friends, disagree without contempt, and repair what their own conduct has damaged. After the Wedding asks how two imperfect people build one life after they have promised to stay. Across fourteen Parts and 53 chapters, Will Bourne considers friendship, communication, conflict, forgiveness, trust, sexuality, money, work, children, family relationships, grief, changing seasons, and continuing companionship. Christ’s grace and the Spirit’s work belong within the account of responsibility. The book gives joy and dependable care room while distinguishing ordinary difficulty from coercion and danger. Marriage does not erase either person, and one spouse cannot perform the other’s repentance. Family Formation Book Five invites love to reach the household people actually experience, including the people whose lives meet the couple’s own.
Book details and library reference
Family Formation, Volume 5 of 10. It also belongs to the Family Formation pathway.
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Why this book exists
The wedding is followed by ordinary days. Two people must learn how to share work, hear a concern, remain friends, disagree without contempt, and repair what their own conduct has damaged. After the Wedding asks how two imperfect people build one life after they have promised to stay.
Who it may help
This book may help readers carrying questions about family formation, especially those looking for a thoughtful, Christ-centered way to connect belief with lived formation.
Where it belongs
Family Formation, Volume 5 of 10. It also belongs to the Family Formation pathway.
Questions this book helps you face
- What question begins this book?
- Why say marriage is mostly Tuesdays?
- How can a committed couple remain friends?
The conversation behind the book
The wedding is followed by ordinary days. Two people must learn how to share work, hear a concern, remain friends, disagree without contempt, and repair what their own conduct has damaged. After the Wedding asks how two imperfect people build one life after they have promised to stay. Across fourteen Parts and 53 chapters, Will Bourne considers friendship, communication, conflict, forgiveness, trust, sexuality, money, work, children, family relationships, grief, changing seasons, and continuing companionship. Christ’s grace and the Spirit’s work belong within the account of responsibility. The book gives joy and dependable care room while distinguishing ordinary difficulty from coercion and danger. Marriage does not erase either person, and one spouse cannot perform the other’s repentance. Family Formation Book Five invites love to reach the household people actually experience, including the people whose lives meet the couple’s own.
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