Ministry & Your Marriage with Special Guest Jess Connolly | Ep. 466
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today Jess Connolly joins us to share some of the joys and challenges of ministry. Jess Conolly is an author and a speaker, she runs Go and Tell Gals, and helps lead Bright City Church in South Carolina, along with her husband, Nick. Jess and Nick are on mission to leave the world more in awe of God than they found it. Listen in as Jess shares some great wisdom, encouragement, and very practical ways to work together in your marriage.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:25.6 | Today, I am honored to be joined by my guest, Jess Connolly. Jess is an author. She's a speaker. She runs Go and Tell Gals, where she equips and coaches women. And she also helps lead Bright City Church in South Carolina alongside her husband, Nick. Jess and Nick have four kids, ages 8 to 14, and they are on mission for God. Today, Jess and I are going to be talking about ministry and ministry and marriage. If you are not in vocational ministry, do not tune us out because we are |
| 0:56.0 | all in ministry as Christ followers. And though pieces of this will apply pretty directly to |
| 1:00.6 | vocational ministry, much of it will apply to all of us as Christ followers. I am truly honored to |
| 1:06.1 | have Jess on the podcast today. Not only is she one of my favorite authors, but she is also |
| 1:10.0 | my absolute favorite person to follow on, but she is also my absolute favorite |
| 1:11.4 | person to follow on Instagram because she is so real, so encouraging, so equipping in that space. |
| 1:17.0 | She helps me love God more and show up for the things that he has placed before me. So Jess, I'm |
| 1:21.9 | thrilled to have you on today. Thanks for being here. Listen, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:26.8 | You're so incredibly encouraging. Awesome. Listen, thank you so much for having me. You're so so incredibly encouraging. |
| 1:29.7 | Awesome. Well, I know one thing that comes up a lot with marriage and ministry is talking about |
| 1:35.2 | the challenges and the tensions that can kind of place on your marriage, but also marriage and |
| 1:39.9 | ministry is a ton of fun. And so I would love to talk about that with you today. What specific joys |
| 1:45.3 | does ministry bring to your marriage? Man, I'll tell you what. That's such a good question. |
| 1:52.1 | What you just said is that's it. That's all of it. There's really particular challenges and there's |
| 1:57.3 | really particular joys. I think the big picture joys that we personally experience and that I think all couples |
| 2:07.0 | in ministry or on mission in any capacity together get to experience is that we're on the |
| 2:12.8 | front lines of seeing life change, you know? |
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