Keeping Love Alive - Volume 4 - An Intimate Relationship with Christ's Body, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
Living on the Edge
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🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Here’s a fact: you will never have a marriage that God wants for you if you are not deeply connected to the body of Christ. In this program, Chip continues his series, Keeping Love Alive, Volume 4. He’s gonna unpack the power of authentic community and how it can dramatically change your marriage forever.
Main Points Great marriages are characterized by close personal relationships with fellow believers that provide love, support, accountability, fun, and opportunities to minister and be ministered to by one another’s gifts and resources- Translation = Marriage is not a solo endeavor; we all need friends, mentors, and other couples to help us remain faithful to Christ and one another. --Romans 12:4-8; 1 Corinthians 12
- The principle = The seeds of fruitful marriage require the soil of authentic community.
- An awareness of our need for others. --Hebrews 3:13
- A process to follow. --Romans 12:9-13
- A weekly practice. --Hebrews 10:23-25
- His love. --John 15:12-17
- His humility. --John 13:14-15; Isaiah 57:15
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a fact. You will never have a marriage that God wants for you if you are not deeply connected to the body of Christ. |
| 0:11.0 | Today I'll teach you how you can experience authentic community. Stay with me. |
| 0:22.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Angry. |
| 0:27.0 | Living on the Edge is an international discipleship ministry featuring the daily Bible teaching of Chip Angry. |
| 0:33.0 | And we're in the middle of his newest series, Keeping Love Alive Volume 4. |
| 0:37.0 | For the past several programs, he's been highlighting four relationships every marriage needs to survive. |
| 0:44.0 | And in case you want to go back and listen to the other three volumes in this series, you can do that by going to special offers at LivingOnTheEdge.org or the Chip Angry Map. |
| 0:54.0 | But with that, here's the remainder of Chip's message, an intimate relationship with Christ's body. He begins by identifying a practice vital to every marriage. |
| 1:04.0 | Discipline is doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done. |
| 1:09.0 | Once you get in patterns, you know, the Bible word you don't hear it anymore, it's called sloth. |
| 1:16.0 | Sloth is simply this. It's the opposite of being disciplined. |
| 1:21.0 | God speaks to you and says, you need to go talk to your wife and ask her for forgiveness. |
| 1:27.0 | And what you do is say, you know what? I think I'm going to read a couple more chapters of my Bible. You're sinning reading your Bible. |
| 1:34.0 | It's easy to get religious. Discipline is doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done. |
| 1:41.0 | God pumps you and says, you know what? You need to share Christ with so-and-so. He's hurting. I know he's an outcast. |
| 1:48.0 | I know he's has a different sexual preference than you. I know there's a lot of stigma to it. |
| 1:54.0 | But he's desperately in pain and shame and hurt and he needs you to break the barrier with him or you to break the barrier with her. |
| 2:02.0 | And look into their eyes regardless of their orientation and let them understand there's someone that understands and someone that loves them and you want to introduce them to the one that can meet their deepest needs. |
| 2:14.0 | Because that attraction and that sin is just like the heterosexual sins and the porn addictions and the sexual addictions and the lying and the affairs and all the other things that we Christians do. |
| 2:26.0 | Right? So what I'm saying is, God wants you to be His body. Jesus lives inside of you. |
| 2:38.0 | So you're in desperate need of love and you're actually in more desperate need to give love. |
| 2:45.0 | The question is, are you currently involved in experiencing authentic community? |
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