Coming Closer – Christian Marriage

We’re 75% of the way through teaching Christian Marriage together here for the first year students – some of which include leaders and pastors married for longer than us!  It’s a challenge given culture and language issues at times, but it has been a great blessing to help lead these couples towards greater intimacy and closeness with one another and the Lord and equip them with more practical skills to navigate the challenges to their marriages in the context of ministry. Many of these couples come from places where the models of Christian marriage are few so the interactions we’re having are special and powerful.

But theme of coming closer has not just been for the ones IN our class.  It’s been the theme for Christine and I as well.  The journey we’ve been on in our decision process to return to IGSL for a second year or not has been full of internal character work, marriage work, and spiritual battle.  One of the things we love about our marriage is that we have learned to do “hard” well – meaning we’re so grateful for the foundation of communication, connection, and spiritual foundation we have to where we can stay connected and intimate even through life’s great storms.  While God is using us to pass some of that on, we have been called to draw even nearer to the Lord as a couple through an intense season of marriage and parenting and ministry and draw even nearer to one another.
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Before our marriage class I made a comment to Christine that I was afraid we weren’t going to have enough recent personal examples to draw from when we teach. Famous last words 🙂  We have had new experiences and illustrations almost daily!  But we have experienced God’s grace in new ways in our marriage through this experience.  Please keep praying as we finish this course together and continue to practice what we’re preaching in our own marriage!

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