Okay, so today we're talking about grace-based gospel-shaped marriage.

Isn't that what we wanted when we got married?

Don't we all want that?

Well, we didn't, we didn't do very well.

We thought we would be amazing. We just thought it would be so easy and then we found out it's a lot harder than you think. Welcome to Family Life Today,

Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are David Ann Wilson.

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Grace. Grace-based marriage that's just hard to implement. Well we're going to find out from the experts they're sitting right here.

Chat and Emily Van Dixhorn wrote the book called Gospel-shaped marriage and you're smiling.

I'm just gonna, I don't know what your answer is gonna be, but is your gospel-shaped marriage easy? I'll just say we need the

gospel we need God's grace so it's just part of everyday life for us.

And it's not easy. Yeah.

It's not easy, but I think it'd be a lot harder without it.

Oh, amen.

I think it'd be impossible.

Like honestly, without Jesus, without what he brings us, I don't think we could,

we would not have made it apart from the gospel.

No, apart from Jesus.

Yes.

And it's a great place to display the gospel. That's what I love. When we're given a

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