Happy 800th!: Episode 800
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Reflecting on 800 episodes, plus more with Dr. Greg Smalley on preparing for a great marriage, and is church membership biblical?
Featured musical artist: David Baloche
Roundtable: Celebrating #800
Thanks to you, our listeners, we’ve reached our 800th episode! To mix things up, show producer John Peardon and audio engineer Alex Seeley take a turn hosting the roundtable — with Lisa Anderson as their guest. They ask her to reflect on hosting 800 episodes, plus everything from which Bible character she’d want to trade places with for a day, to things she wants Christians to stop doing, and skills she’s used from previous jobs in her current role.
Culture: Preparing for Your Future Marriage (Part 2)
Many singles dream of finding a spouse. But after that comes…marriage. Marriage is fantastic, but not easy. Are there things to learn before marriage that will set you up for better success in marriage? To help frame our perspective on what makes marriage work, Dr. Greg Smalley instructs us how to think about love from a godly perspective. In part two, he’ll address how love needs time to grow, plus why true love embraces and endures.
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Inbox: Should You Join a Church?
Most Christians would agree that being part of a local church is important; but is it necessary to be a member rather than just attend? Is that biblical? Lisa Anderson weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of the boundless show. |
| 0:13.2 | Lisa Anderson here with you. And you're going to find out pretty quickly that this is a very special episode. |
| 0:19.7 | And you will find that out in a couple different ways. |
| 0:22.2 | But I want you to know as one of our intros here that we actually have a new feature that I want to introduce to you. |
| 0:29.5 | It is where you can leave us a voicemail from your phone or your laptop. |
| 0:34.1 | And this is going to allow you to ask us a question or maybe submit a comment |
| 0:38.5 | using your actual voice. So this is a fun feature we have. So if you go to boundless.org |
| 0:45.0 | and search for episode 800 or you will see the show notes for the link, you can go ahead and try it out. |
| 0:51.2 | And maybe you will start hearing others' voices and your voice in the |
| 0:55.4 | near future. Yes, definitely don't want to miss that feature right there. So later on for our |
| 1:01.2 | inbox, is it important to actually join a church or should you just kind of go and casually |
| 1:07.2 | attend? One of our listeners is wanting to know, so our very own Lisa Anderson is going to |
| 1:12.7 | weigh in with some thoughts on that. And then later on for our culture segment, Greg Smalley is back |
| 1:18.7 | for part two of a conversation on what it looks like for you to be preparing well for marriage. |
| 1:24.7 | So he'll specifically get into what true love looks like. You do not want to |
| 1:29.4 | miss out. Well, here we are for a very special roundtable, and you're probably wondering who are |
| 1:34.5 | these guys who are talking right now. I am John Peerden. I'm the producer of the boundless show. |
| 1:40.5 | And I'm Alex Seeley. I am the editor for the boundless show. And we are both going to be taking |
| 1:46.2 | the horns for today's episode. Yes, for the roundtable specifically. But we are very excited because |
| 1:53.5 | Lisa Anderson, this is your 800th episode. Congratulations. Well, thank you. That's pretty outrageous. |
| 2:00.5 | I can hardly even believe it. Yes. Well done. Congratulations. Well, thank you. That's pretty outrageous. I can hardly even believe it. |
| 2:01.9 | Yes. Well done. Congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. So we're going to mix it up a little bit |
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