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And at that time, Mark was extremely hard-hearted. He said, yes, absolutely. I am. I'm having an affair and I'm not stopping.

Wow. That would be a horrifying thing to hear from your spouse. You're gonna hear today how Mark and Jill Savage navigated through that very difficult circumstance on today's episode of Focus on the Family.

Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

Today, we're featuring a presentation that highlights the fact that God is always at work in our lives, even when a marriage is in jeopardy due to infidelity.

Through it all, God is seeking our redemption and leading us toward wholeness.

And let me set the stage for today's message. Mark Savage was a Christian leader who admittedly was not letting Christ lead in his own life.

He was sending through an affair and had left God's path due to guilt and shame. But God always provides us with a path back to his way of doing things and Mark finally found it.

And the three core principles that guided Mark and Jill to a better place are these.

First, surrendering their will to God's will, second, responding to offenses with the love of God. Third, choosing forgiveness.

Now, none of these principles require anyone to stay in harm's way. Let me be very clear about that. You can express love and forgiveness while drawing boundaries and setting clear biblical expectations around the covenant of marriage.

That's really an important note, Jim. And with that, here's Mark and Jill Savage speaking at the church next door in Columbus, Ohio on today's episode of Focus on the Family.

So I didn't grow up in church. I didn't know Christ. I was an incredibly worldly kid. I was invited to a Billy Graham crusade and it was there in Indianapolis that I accepted Christ.

And then I went on to Mary Jill and we passed her for 20 years in a church. But I was incredibly performance based. I was driven by lies that I'm not enough. I'll never be enough.

I'm not lovable. All of those lies that led to unrealistic expectations of God, of the church, of Jill.

Of course, I was fine because I was okay on this side of the expectations. But we now refer to that time in my life as a dark season. I was worn out with life as disillusioned with God, with life, with marriage.

I went on to have an affair and I left Jill and the kids and I was headed on to this new life of excitement and newness and it's going to be rosy until it wasn't because I took somebody else with me on that trip.

I was a mess. I was a huge mess. And then it was Easter Sunday, 2012 that I had my own personal resurrection. And for the first time, I really moved from having a savior to Jesus Christ being the God of my life.

When I accepted Christ, I was desperate for a savior. I needed to get off the streets. I needed to get my life turned around. But I didn't understand what it meant for my life to be completely surrendered to Jesus Christ.

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