More on marriage

Luke and I have really been praying over what our role is as Christians in a community where marriages are being destroyed. Do we keep silent? Do we shout out from the mountaintop that we made wedding vows?

Since neither of those approaches seemed quite what Christ would have us to do, we decided to do a number of things:

1) Evaluate our marriage. It does no good to try and encourage others when we ourselves are flailing. We found that we are overall really solid (although, we do have some things to work on).

2) Find accountability. This seems generic, but being accountable to other married couples is important. We encourage all of our married friends to hold themselves accountable to at least one other couple. If you start struggling in your marriage, let this couple know so they can pray, be an encouragement, and remind you of your marriage vows.

3) Make it our ministry focus. We have been leading a Bible study for a number of years with a group of relatively happy, stable married couples. We enjoy this and will continue to do so. On the other hand, we wrote our marriage mission statement before we got married that said we desired to minister to those who were hurting both emotionally and spiritually. Please be in prayer as we find out exactly how Christ wants us to do this. We have been praying through various avenues and are excited at the doors the Lord seems to be opening. Our specific target audience is Christian married couples as we feel that there is an accountability not only to each other, but also to the Lord.

Please be in prayer for us as we seek how God would have us minister to His people. Pray also for protection for our marriage; we know that Satan really wants to destroy marriages, and if we go out on to work with hurting people, we are a really easy target!

And, let us know how we can be praying for you!