How to Have a Thriving Marriage When You're in Ministry | Ep. 574
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ministry couples face both unique joys and unique challenges. If you've been around Awesome Marriage for a while, you've probably heard Dr. Kim say to put God first and your spouse second. But when your job is ministry, it can be really hard to balance your vocational ministry with your primary ministry - your marriage. Today we're talking about how to keep your marriage thriving when you are in ministry.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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The surprising data on how ministry affects marriage and family
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Our personal experiences of what makes ministry hard on marriage
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What to do if you work in a ministry culture that does not prioritize marriage or family
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4 specific ways to protect and build your marriage
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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Don't let your ministry take out your marriage! The Sustaining Your Marriage In Ministry online course was designed to help you through the challenges you face. Learn more HERE.
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Our friends at Emotionally Healthy Discipleship offer resources that equip leaders to lead from their inner life with Christ.
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Anything you want to hear about that we missed today? Shoot me an email and let us know!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.7 | If you have been listening to the awesome marriage podcast for a while, you've probably heard Dr. Kim say to always put God first in your spouse second every day. |
| 0:36.2 | But when your job is vocational ministry, it can be really tempting to put that ahead and your spouse second every day. But when your job is vocational ministry, |
| 0:38.5 | it can be really tempting to put that ahead of your spouse since you're working for God. |
| 0:43.6 | So today we're talking all about how to keep your marriage thriving when you're in ministry. |
| 0:48.9 | It is your primary ministry after all. So Dr. Kim, first off, why does this topic matter? What's different in marriage |
| 0:56.7 | for a couple that's in ministry? Yeah, I heard a quote or somebody talk about marriage and |
| 1:03.1 | ministry a couple months ago. So I started searching for that yesterday for that stat. And it was a survey |
| 1:08.7 | that Barna did. And it's's really interesting 80% of people in |
| 1:13.6 | ministry believe that ministry has negatively affected their marriage and families wow and then two |
| 1:19.9 | out of five pastors nationwide are seriously thinking about quitting the ministry so i think there are |
| 1:26.1 | some different things and now we've had this great |
| 1:27.8 | resignation, you know, after COVID, with a lot of different areas, but we've certainly seen a lot |
| 1:32.2 | in the church. So I think it matters, the topic matters because ministry's hard. It's demanding. |
| 1:38.8 | There are expectations that are put on a couple and a pastor, whether it's the husband of life, |
| 1:45.2 | that are a lot of times very unrealistic, but people think they're realistic. |
| 1:50.5 | There's all the emotional demands that go on. |
| 1:53.0 | If you think about what a pastor does, they do, |
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