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We love weddings!
But how do two people, with their different cultural backgrounds and expectations, make sure they continue to grow together for the rest of their lives?
In Celebrating Your Intercultural Marriage, Les and Louise Isaac offer wisdom and encouragement, drawing from over 40 years of marriage, and 30 years of marriage ministry, to couples setting out on an intercultural marriage journey.
Including their own stories, and those of real couples they've mentored along the way, they address such important topics as:
- the social and spiritual context for marriage today
- how to set boundaries with parents and in-laws
- why it is important to talk through cultural differences
- how to work through times when those differences clash
- the role of the wider church community in supporting marriages
- why embracing difference can lead to a unique and life-giving relationship
This book is for every couple that wants to learn to love their cultural differences and turn them into their greatest strength.
Welcome
PART 1: The multicultural context and how you fit into it
CHAPTER 1: What do we mean by intercultural marriage?
CHAPTER 2: The 'iceberg model' of culture
CHAPTER 3: Your cultural profile
PART 2: Inherited colours
CHAPTER 4: Family colours
CHAPTER 5: The colours of expectation
CHAPTER 6: Unwanted colours
PART 3: Principles for painting together
CHAPTER 7: The picture frame
CHAPTER 8: The colours of God’s kingdom culture
CHAPTER 9: Painting on your canvas together
PART 4: Going forward
CHAPTER 10: The first brush strokes
CHAPTER 11: Sources of support for intercultural marriage
Appendix 1: A pre-marriage questionnaire (designed with an awareness of cultural differences)
Appendix 2: God and intercultural marriage
Appendix 3: Further reading