Men and Women, Waffles and Spaghetti (2) – Working Together

Welcome to CROLCC, we are so glad you are here worshiping with us. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers today! I hope you enjoyed your breakfast and thank you for being our mothers! I sincerely hope that not only will you be honored today, but you will be honored everyday by your husband, your children, and your grandchildren. Mothers really are a gift for us! They do all the things at work and around the house that men only wish they can do. It’s amazing to watch a mother at work, isn’t it? She can talk on the phone, watch her kids, cook a meal, manage the schedule all at the same time! We men get tired just thinking about those things.

That is why we have been talking about men and women these two weeks. Men and women really are different and it’s not a myth. God created men and women different. Last week we talked about men are more like waffles and women are more like spaghetti. Men process life like boxes and like to put different things in boxes. Women process life like everything is connecting to each other. No wonder there are so many conflicts in relationships when men and women don’t understand or know how to work with each other. So today, we are going to talk about that, knowing what we know about men and women, how do we work with each other? Because two are always better than one.

Moving Forward

Men and Women are simply different. Actually we are all different because of where we grew up and our own personalities. Take the time to get to know yourself and each other. Accept one another and continue to learn to work together, because relationships are worth it.

Changing Your Mind

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:12

Discussion Questions

1. How would you describe your parents’ marriage growing up?

Questions for married couples.

2. How similar or different is your marriage from how you pictured it to be?

3. What are some of the ways you have tried to resolve conflict in the past? What worked and what didn’t work?

4. How do you divide up responsibilities in your marriage?

5. What are some of the things you could improve on as a married couple? What can this group do to support you?

Questions for singles.

2. How do you picture your marriage to be if one day you got married?

3. Is it different for you when you tried to resolve conflict with the member of the opposite sex as oppose to the member of the same sex? How so?

4. What are some of the things you have learned in this series that can be applied in your life currently? What can this group do to support you?