390-Should a Woman Lead This? Donny's Transformation Story
Delight Your Marriage
Belah Rose
4.7 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As an Amish growing up, Donny has had quite the journey.
Just a couple of years ago after God rescued him from a very difficult place, his marriage actually was fairly good.
He found and listened to the podcast for quite a while and felt convicted that he needed to do the men's program.
He was content in his own marriage, he just wanted to know if he could recommend it to others.
But he was surprised to see how helpful it was to him personally, and his marriage grew even more than he thought possible. :)
Things got tricky when some people approached him with concern about the fact that I'm a lady in leadership.
Wisely so, he and his wife grappled with and prayed about it.
He distinctly felt the Lord speak to his heart about it. I would love for you to hear what he felt the Lord say.
I hope his story encourages you.
Love,
Belah
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Delighted Wife Grad Quote:
Before DW: "We had a home full of animosity. Chaos. Yelling and fighting. We were not intimate."
After DW: "This program has truly changed my marriage forever! This has empowered me to forgive, put my trust in Jesus, and to bring my marriage to the place I never thought possible. I started this program broken and in utter despair. The sadness and the defeat was a physical pain. That weight has been lifted off of me. We still have things to work on, but so thankful for the tools and hope to keep on pursuing toward the marriage I dreamt of!"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast. You're joining me, Bella Rose, as I dive deep into the beauty, power, and truths about intimacy. |
| 0:11.2 | Learn not only the practicals, but the heart behind what making love is all about. Delight your marriage. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello there. Welcome. This is Bella. And I hope you're having a good day. Today's episode is near and dear to my heart for a lot of reasons. But I think once you start hearing from Donnie, you're going to be so impressed with his heart and his desire to |
| 0:39.6 | please the Lord and his desire to do God's will. Donnie has a really unique, from my perspective, |
| 0:49.9 | unique backstory is he was raised Amish and I think pretty recently is formerly Amish. |
| 0:58.0 | And so when you think about that community, there's a lot of unique strictures, structure structure and boundaries and really a heart to please the Lord. |
| 1:16.7 | Um, |
| 1:17.0 | and, uh, and just a lot of, uh, limits to what's, uh, allowed to be done. |
| 1:22.7 | And one of those very concretely is women in terms of, or power or that kind of thing is just not |
| 1:33.6 | done. |
| 1:35.0 | So I was raised in a conservative way and I currently am still conservative in terms of, you know, |
| 1:43.7 | I believe the Bible is the Bible, and that's where I'm |
| 1:46.5 | supposed to get my yay or nay, if something's allowed or isn't. It's in the word of God or it's not. |
| 1:53.8 | And in terms of women in leadership, I've got some thoughts that I would like to elucidate with you at the end of this episode. |
| 2:04.7 | But Donnie, too, had to really process this. |
| 2:07.8 | And he even had some people that were close to him bring this to his attention, |
| 2:13.0 | that as a woman leading this ministry, is something you've got to really take a second look at. |
| 2:20.7 | And I think he gives some really good thoughts and insights that I'd like to give you an opportunity to consider. |
| 2:29.0 | And then I'd like to go through some scripture about it at the end of this episode because I love the Bible. I would |
| 2:35.9 | never want to do something outside of God's will. And so we though have to then interpret at times |
| 2:43.6 | there are some gray areas that are that are unclear. It doesn't mean there's not a right and a wrong. |
| 2:48.7 | It just means that it's unclear. |
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