All dysfunctional families either have no communication, they're silent, or they just don't talk about the truth.

There's an elephant, quite elephant standing in the middle of the room and nobody will talk about it.

That's what a dysfunctional family is.

A functional family says, we're going to talk about the truth, we're going to talk about our feelings.

We're going to talk about real issues in our relationship, but we're going to do it in a loving way.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of The Marriage Today Podcast.

Today we have a great teaching for you that I pray, grows your marriage and blesses you as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.

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Communications is the way we know people.

You can't know a person in marriage unless you communicate. It's how you fall in love, it's how you become one.

It's how we understand the other person's heart, it's how we talk about problems, it's how we resolve issues, it's how we talk about needs.

It is so important when an enemy, when you're fighting an enemy, one of the things they want to do and war is to cut your communication lines.

They don't want you communicating with each other because once they cut your communication they can confuse you and defeat you.

So in marriage the enemy does not want us to communicate, so he's always trying everything he can to violate and cut the communication lines within our marriages.

So I want to talk about just the importance of communication in marriage and I'm going to talk about two things.

The first thing I want to talk about is avoiding the common dangers and problems of communication in marriage.

Just avoiding the common problems in there too. One is not understanding the power of words and this is very important.

Now, you know, we live in a smart-elect society, a very vulgar smart-elect-y society where people use words very carelessly.

In fact, when you watch television, this has gotten worse. It's gotten much worse since I was a kid and just walked every year, it gets worse.

The profanity, there was a report that came out this week that was talking about the nudity and profanity on primetime television.

You can hear just about any word you could ever want to hear on television in primetime because our society is becoming more vulgar.

But Proverbs 18 says this.

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