Blended Families: Navigating Complexities with Hope and Joy (Mike and Kim Anderson)

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Being in a blended family is as complex as it is challenging. The good news is that you aren't without hope in the Gospel and help from others who care! In today's special interview episode, we had the incredible joy of speaking with Mike and Kim Anderson, the proverbial "experts" on blended families. Mike & Kim have been supporting stepfamilies since 2001. Their marriage formed a stepfamily and Mike grew up in challenging stepfamily dynamics. Their personal experience with stepfamily life and professional experience coaching others uniquely equip them to help step-couples learn and implement healthy habits that will positively transform their daily stepfamily life. You can download their FREE guide, How to Build Connection, Order & Peace in Your Stepfamily by visiting FierceMarriage.com/Blended (https://FierceMarriage.com/blended) Thanks for listening! Please remember to subscribe, rate, and review. As always, we welcome feedback... simply go to FierceMarriage.com/Podcast (FierceMarriage.com/Podcast) to leave a comment or to ask a question! Become a Patron! Support for the Fierce Marriage Podcast comes from partners like you via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/fiercemarriage). If our content has helped you, we'd be honored if you'd consider becoming a Patreon supporter! Just visit Patreon.com/FierceMarriage (https://www.Patreon.com/FierceMarriage)

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0:00.0	Okay, so before we get into this topic, I think it's important to have some kind of baseline clarifying things
0:07.6	Because we're gonna be talking about blended families and you can't talk about blended families and as you'll hear in the interview
0:13.7	It Mike and Kim talk about how blended families are really the result of brokenness something is broken in the relationship
0:20.4	So you can't talk about blended families without talking about divorce. So I want to be very clear
0:26.1	On what the Bible says or at least what we what we believe the Bible says most of the big points are agreed upon with within orthodox
0:34.2	Christian Bible believing circles. There are some nuances to these things which can only be really hashed out
0:40.8	In an individual basis with relationship. So for clarity
0:44.6	I we got seven points. I want to make sure that our crystal clear as we move forward in this because we value God's word
0:49.8	And we want it to bear weight on our lives
0:52.2	especially in topics that are
0:54.3	More complex like divorce and remarriage and blended families and all that stuff. So number one
1:00.0	Divorce is never God's best for any marriage Christian or non Christian alike
1:05.1	We actually read in Malachi 219 in the NASB translation. It says God hates divorce
1:10.7	It's never his best for any marriage. Okay, so that's the that's the first point the second point is as a last resort and
1:17.0	quote-unquote because of hardness of hearts the Bible gives two clear grounds for divorce one sexual immorality that comes from Matthew 5 verse 32 and Matthew 19 verse 9 and
1:27.1	2 abandonment by an unbeliever that comes from 1 Corinthians 7 15
1:31.5	There is nuance now hear me here. There are new wants to what constitutes abandonment abandonment
1:37.5	Excuse me by an unbeliever that can only be discerned on a case-by-case basis
1:42.4	Okay, so there's new wants there. You need to have pastoral care lots of prayer and biblical counseling if you're
1:48.9	Considering one of those last resorts, which leads me to number three our third point is that the two grounds for divorce that are outlined in Scripture
1:56.9	Shouldn't be construed as situations requiring divorce. All right. I want to be clear on that divorce is not required or even encouraged in those cases
2:06.9	There are exceptions made and not imposed requirements
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