Staying committed to our marriage does not have to be a white knuckling experience. Amen. God has called us to live in covenant with one another and we don't have to sit in this idea that maybe we should have a backup plan. Maybe, you know, if it doesn't work, I feel like we're just having too many fights. I don't know that we're in love anymore. That's not the way that we're called to live in this covenant of marriage.

So we're here to say, it's time to burn the backup plan, burn the ships, as you'll say,

as we'll say, and we will talk about what that means on the other side.

Burn the boats, as they say.

Burn them down, all the way down to the depths of the sea so that you have no backup plan.

You have no...

Which could be a scary thing, I think, for some people, because depending on where you're at in your marriage, you might be thinking,

maybe it's time to throw in the towel.

And I'm watching this podcast, or I'm listening to this podcast time to throw in the towel. And I'm watching

this podcast or I'm listening to this podcast. I'm watching this video because I'm kind of at the

end of myself. I don't know what else to do. How do we move forward in such a hard time in our

marriage? And we're saying the first thing that you need to do is burn the ships, is burn that

backup plan. So this is what gets me

about this topic is that there's no couple stands at the altar on their wedding day and says,

I do unless. No one says that. I do until. I do unless you kind of, no one says that and no one

would even overtly admit that, even years years into their marriage at least very few people would

But we live like it and here's the thing we're talking to Christian couples

Okay, so here we are we say we we submit ourselves to the authority of scripture

We're gonna let it tell us how to live our lives

It's radically countercultural, but that's what a faithful Christian does, ideally.

And no Christian thinks consciously in their minds that they can kind of, at any point

they could back out of their marriage if they decide to.

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