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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Accountability and Forgiveness

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

When your marriage faces a crisis, two of the most important things you need are supportive friends and to choose forgiveness. But what about when you don't feel like forgiving? John talks with Erin and Greg about how forgiveness is a process and not a one time decision. Featuring Mr. Mark and Mrs. Jill Savage.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.3

today.

0:36.0

Imagine if you were in the military and you alone were given the task of taking

0:40.5

an entire army down by yourself. It sounds like an impossible task doesn't it?

0:46.3

On the same way, your marriage facing a crisis, you can't do it alone. It's

0:50.8

critical to surround yourself with people who can help you. I'm John Fuller

0:55.0

along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. They lead our marriage department here and

0:58.9

we're going to begin with the continuation of a conversation Jim Daley and I

1:03.2

had with Mark and Jill Savage. In previous episodes, Mark had confessed to Jill

1:08.8

that he'd had an affair and they went through a roller coaster recovery

1:12.7

process. Here now they discuss some things that helped them reset after the

1:17.4

devastating betrayal. You speak to this idea of the gift of accountability. So

1:22.2

let's move through that. You guys, you know, you're in a better place. What is

1:26.0

the gift of accountability now? Well, I think an unhealthy view of accountability

1:31.2

is that someone is there to police another person's life. And that's incredibly

1:37.0

unhealthy. The gift of accountability is that I would stay, I would push

1:44.2

information to Jill about where I was going, what I was doing, not out of

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