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Hi guys, this is Felicia Masonheimer, and welcome back to Verity Podcast. We are in the middle

of the Honest Marriage series. And my co-host for this series is my husband Josh.

Hey guys. And so for this episode, we're going to talk about how to be involved in the church

and how to navigate church as a married couple. We have talked a little bit about the theology

of marriage in earlier episodes, but this time we're talking about some practicals.

And because church is such a broad topic, we're going to talk about it in three sections.

First, discussing the benefits of being in a church as a married couple. Secondly, discussing

how to choose a church as a couple. And third, how to serve in a church together. And so we hope

to keep this pretty concise. And I mean, suffice it to say we, having moved around as much as we have,

we have been in quite a few churches. Yeah, we have. And we were in two churches together when we

lived in Virginia, then one in Pennsylvania, and we've been in two since we were back in Michigan.

But we also visit churches when we travel. And we especially love to visit our friends churches

when we are out of state. And so it's been really cool to actually get to expose our kids to

these different denominations in church environments and also experience those together.

Yeah, it's fun. Okay, so let's start with the benefits of being in church as a married couple.

When Josh and I were talking about this before we started recording, the first thing that we thought

about was accountability. Yeah. So Josh, what do you think as a husband, maybe what does

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