How to Argue with Your Spouse
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Desiring God
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🗓️ 9 January 2015
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday, everyone. We're back with Francis Chan, who joins us again from San Francisco. |
| 0:10.3 | Francis and his wife, Lisa, are the authors of the new book, You and Me Forever, Marriage |
| 0:15.3 | and Light of Eternity. Francis, how do you and Lisa argue like Christians? I think some |
| 0:21.3 | readers of the book will be surprised that you and Lisa have conflict, but of course |
| 0:24.5 | married couples won't be surprised at all. We all do at some point. So when it comes |
| 0:28.6 | to verbal conflicts and disagreements, what is a core lesson that you have learned |
| 0:33.9 | about how to argue with your spouse in a way that honors Christ? |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, Lisa and I argue. Honestly, we don't argue that much because we realize we don't |
| 0:46.8 | have time for this. There's a, we're on a mission. She describes it like there's a TV show |
| 0:53.3 | called the amazing race where couples are racing, you know, to get to this finish line |
| 0:59.2 | and they're competing with other couples. But you see certain ones fight and they start |
| 1:04.2 | losing ground and they argue with each other and they lose the race. And we look at our |
| 1:09.0 | lives very much like that. Like there are things for us to do. And if we, you know, what |
| 1:15.2 | we're here to seek is kingdom. We're here to make disciples. And if we spend our time |
| 1:18.8 | just fighting with each other, it's going to keep us from his mission. And so one of the |
| 1:23.5 | ways we fight is always realizing, okay, divorce isn't an option. And also we don't have |
| 1:29.6 | a lot of time to argue about petty things because we're dealing with eternal things. And |
| 1:35.1 | so we keep that that that in our minds. Another thing that we keep in mind for me, first |
| 1:40.6 | Peter 3 comes to mind where it tells us husbands to live with our wives in this understanding |
| 1:46.9 | weighed the the treater as a fellow heir of the grace of life so that our prayers may |
| 1:52.2 | not be hindered. Okay, if I don't do this right, God's not going to listen to my prayers. |
| 1:56.8 | And I got to have him hear my prayers. That's the most important thing in my life. And so |
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