An Eternal Perspective for Your Marriage
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
One day, the story of your marriage on earth will come to an end. While that may seem sad, recognizing that reality can be a huge motivator for treating your spouse well. John, Erin and Greg discuss how having an eternal perspective has influenced the ways they interact with their spouse. Featuring Mr. Gary Thomas.
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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. |
| 0:35.8 | On a Christian in one of the greatest hopes I have and it's a firm hope is that |
| 0:39.9 | I'm going to spend eternity in heaven. And today we'll be discussing how to |
| 0:44.0 | have an eternal perspective that is probably going to influence the way you |
| 0:48.2 | treat your spouse. I'm John Fuller along with my friends and focus colleagues |
| 0:52.3 | Aaron Smolley and Greg Smolley. And let's go ahead and listen now to a conversation |
| 0:57.8 | Gary Thomas had with Jim Daley and me. This was at a couples event on our |
| 1:02.1 | campus and Gary always has amazing insights to help us in our daily lives. You |
| 1:07.8 | know one of the great concepts you have in the book too is this idea that you |
| 1:13.6 | challenge younger couples and older couples frankly to think of their |
| 1:17.4 | marriage in terms of eternity. Yeah. Why is that eternal perspective so |
| 1:23.8 | important and thinking about to combine it with another concept you had which |
| 1:29.3 | was think of the last day of your marriage? Well I'm a Christian before I'm |
| 1:35.6 | anything else more than I want marriages to get together. I want people to be |
| 1:40.0 | reconciled to their creator. The model of my ministry has been closer to Christ, |
| 1:44.2 | closer to others, but closer to Christ comes first. And this section I'm so |
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