Community in the Fight

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

You and your spouse weren't meant to do life alone. Having other couples around you is key to a healthy relationship. John and Greg discuss how their marriages have been helped by having friends and share where you can go to find community. Featuring Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff.

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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
0:28.2	today. I think one of the richest gifts that we've had in our marriage has
0:38.8	been kind of a life group. Let's call them a group of eight, nine, ten couples
0:43.6	that we've been in a Sunday school class with for 20 years. They have been
0:47.9	life-giving. They've been affirming. They've been strong. When we are weak they
0:52.1	have really championed our marriage and that is a wonderful, wonderful thing to
0:58.0	have. I hope you have somebody like that in your life. If not you're going to
1:02.7	hear why it's important on this episode. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg
1:07.5	Smiley. He leads our marriage team here with his wife Aaron. She's not in the
1:12.0	studio with us today but Greg who are some of the friends who have helped you in
1:15.7	your marital journey. It's funny you talked about your small group, your Sunday
1:19.7	school class. I mean that's been the same for us in different seasons, different
1:25.2	places we live. We've always had a small group and those people have always been
1:29.2	instrumental. There was one couple in particular who were very, very honest
1:35.6	about infidelity that they had gone through and how they'd recovered from that.
1:40.6	I remember why that was so powerful is that what that did within their
1:46.3	marriage is that it created an opportunity for them to really learn how to be
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