Marriage: My Spouse's Friendships
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
- How can friendships be a blessing to a Christian marriage?
- Why do we hear things from our friends in ways we don’t from our spouse?
- What would you say to someone whose spouse's friends are not a blessing?
- Does your family have family friends?
- How have you created space for friendships?
- How can someone practically carve out that time in their own marriage?
- What role can and should the local church play in providing community for a family?
- Matthew 5:29-32
- Human Trafficking Institute
- “Made for People” by Justin Whitmel Earley
- “Friend-ish” by Kelly Needham
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast, a podcast of Training the Church. |
| 0:12.6 | This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my co-hosts, first Mrs. Cassie Bryant. |
| 0:17.9 | Cassie, something you like to do with your friends that Eric would not be that into. Oh, how do I pick? There's so many things. Going on a midnight taco run. Because he would be asleep or he hates tacos? Oh, he's asleep. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there are been nights where I've, like, tapped him, be like, hey, my friend and I, we're going to go get tacos. |
| 0:38.3 | And he's like, okay, bye. Shopping. He's not into shopping at all. Manicures. Yeah. He puts the man in manicure. Yeah, he does. No. No. No. Oh, so you have a long list of things. Oh, yeah. Also here with Cassie and I today is my wife, Chelsea Griffin. Chelsea, how are you today? |
| 0:56.7 | I'm doing well. Thank you. Is there anything No. No. Oh, so you have a long list of things. Oh, yeah. Also here with Cassie and I today is my wife, Chelsea Griffin. |
| 0:55.5 | Chelsea, how are you today? |
| 0:56.7 | I'm doing well, thank you. Is there anything you like to do that I don't like to do? With friends? I would love it if you wanted to go one of those spa places with me that has all these different saunas and hot tubs. Oh, they're co-ed places like that? |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, there are. |
| 1:11.1 | And like, yeah, people wear like normal swimsuits, stuff like that. |
| 1:14.8 | Good. and hot tubs. Oh, they're co-ed places like that? Yeah, there are. And, and like, yeah, people wear like normal swimsuits, stuff like that. It's like, you know, it's all about hydrotherapy and all that. And of course, you know, my goal is just to cook myself, right? And you'd be in the cryo room the whole time. Oh, freezing? Oh, I don't think I'd enjoy the cryo room, but like, I don't know, maybe. But you would like to do a spa day together? That'd be fun if you liked it. Okay. All right. I don't go near stuff like that. Let's talk about things you like. Oh, what's something I like that you don't like? Old books. That's true? Yeah, but there's something I do with my friend. Sitting quietly in a dark room. |
| 1:44.3 | Eric? old books. That's true. Yeah. But there's something I do with my friend. |
| 1:45.5 | Sitting quietly in a dark room. |
| 1:47.9 | Eric does that too. |
| 1:49.6 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:50.3 | It scares me. |
| 1:51.3 | They love it. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm like, oh, I didn't know you were in. |
| 1:54.8 | The lights are off. |
| 1:57.1 | He's just in there by himself. |
| 1:59.1 | I love it. |
| 2:03.4 | Well, tonight's episode, we're back on our marriage theme for the semester, and we're going to talk about our spouse's friendships, |
| 2:07.9 | like things they do with friends, which, by the way, I do not sit in the dark with buddies. |
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