Is mission going to ruin my marriage? | Episode 160
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Go + Tell Gals Podcast! This season on the podcast, we want to answer the questions you’re already asking. This episode, we are unpacking what holding relationship and mission together looks like: Is mission going to ruin my marriage? Jess and her husband, Nick Connolly, pastor of Bright City Church, sit down and give us a behind-the-scenes look at different seasons of their marriage and how it affected their mission along the way.
Maybe you’re asking, what do we do if my spouse and I feel called to different God-given missions? Or what if my spouse doesn’t agree with or understand what I’m called to? There’s a lot to unpack in this episode and Jess and Nick use their wisdom and experience to help answer these questions.
All in all, Jess and Nick believe being in a mission-minded marriage makes life better, but often what is better begins as something difficult and takes pruning. Anytime you’re leaning into the mission of God, there will be resistance. Marriage is beautiful. Your God-given mission is beautiful. God didn’t give you both to be in competition with each other, so may we find our base in our relationships and build from there together. Amen?
We pray that you feel encouraged and blessed as you listen to this week’s episode.
He is mighty in you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jess Connolly, and you are listening to the Go and Tell Gals podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | We exist to equip and encourage kingdom women who are using their God-given gifts for the good of others and the glory of God. |
| 0:23.1 | If you are a mom, a student, an artist, a doctor, we are hoping that this episode will leave you |
| 0:30.0 | encouraged and ready to run. We're so glad you're here. Let's go. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello, friends. It's Jess here. And I have got my best friend, my pastor, my buddy, and one of my favorite podcast partners. Hey, Nick. Thanks for joining the podcast. |
| 0:48.9 | Wow. What an intro. It's so good to be here. |
| 0:51.4 | I feel like something kind of magical happens when you and I sit at this table and put a mic in front of us. |
| 0:57.8 | And we're actually at our kitchen table. |
| 0:59.5 | We're not to go in Telgall's office. |
| 1:01.8 | So if you hear our dog slightly, like moving in the background, that's what you hear. |
| 1:06.8 | But I feel like something kind of sacred has happened a few times in our life when we've hit record and just started talking. |
| 1:13.6 | And to be clear for everyone listening, you know a little bit where we're going today, but you said you don't want to see the fine-tune detail notes. |
| 1:20.9 | I love a good surprise. |
| 1:22.1 | Okay. |
| 1:22.6 | Let's go. |
| 1:23.1 | A good podcast surprise. |
| 1:24.7 | Pop podcast or what would you call that? |
| 1:27.1 | Like a pop quiz? Yeah, pop pop. Okay, I like it. |
| 1:30.4 | I like it. Well, you may or may have noticed. I mean, Nick, you may or may not have noticed. |
| 1:35.8 | And dear friend listening, you may or may not have noticed. But this fall, we've actually been |
| 1:41.2 | posing all of our podcast episodes as questions. So we're trying to |
| 1:47.1 | think about questions that you are asking, questions that we are also asking. And we're just |
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