Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Today we are doing a Q&A episode. You guys sent me some

questions on Instagram. I am going to answer them some theological, some cultural, some

political. I'm very excited to get into them. First question that we've got, how do

you deal with a husband who has turned away from the faith? So you married a guy, he said

he was a Christian, you were both following the Lord or you both thought that you were

following the Lord when you first got married. And then he decided that he was no longer

going to be a part of the Christian faith. Maybe his faith was never genuine in the first

place or maybe he is just going through a season of doubt, a season of spiritual turmoil,

a season of temptation and the Lord is going to bring him back. As his wife, obviously,

your desire is that he knows Christ, not just so that he knows joy and he knows peace

and he knows assurance today, but also so he is with God for all of eternity for people

that we love. Like that is our number one desire. That's our that's our number one goal

is for them to know the gospel, for them to be reconciled to the holy God who made them.

So what does the Bible have to say about this? The Bible does talk about not being unequally

yoked with unbelievers that we don't believe that we are as Christians to marry someone

who is not a believer marriage is already hard. It can be already hard because life is

hard and you go through seasons of difficulty, seasons of maybe tension, seasons of some

kind of calamity in your life that can make marriage even harder than it already is.

All kinds of relationships are difficult, but especially when you are in such close contact

with the same person every day, you have an intimate relationship with them, you know

everything about them, they know everything about you, you notice all of their tics, you

know their habits and you know their hang ups. Of course marriage is going to be hard because

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