One Flesh, One Team: How To Stop Living Like Roommates

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Many marriages don’t explode—they slowly turn into competition, frustration, and “roommate” living. God gave one command to protect unity: leave, cleave, and become one flesh. Ignoring it quietly fuels conflict, while embracing it reshapes priorities and restores real intimacy. Discover how Christ-centered unity can move your marriage from surviving to truly becoming one. Transformed Podcast Episode 161 | February 05, 2026 ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is? What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?
0:03.8	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.4	God replaced all my junk with, with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.8	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.3	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's University
0:30.4	and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform.
0:38.5	My name is Dr. Greg Gifford and I am your host.
0:40.8	And today we're talking about unity in marriage.
0:44.4	And this is a topic that was actually requested by a few listeners.
0:49.5	They wrote in and said, Dr. G, one was newly married.
0:53.5	One was in a dating relationship that's getting
0:55.9	serious and trying to think through how does that work with friendships of the opposite sex.
1:01.1	And then when you get married, what do friendships of the opposite sex look like?
1:05.2	And the other was just about making decisions as a new couple. So I want to try to group all of those into the next two episodes.
1:14.3	And as I'm doing so, I must first of all pause and thank you for listening. Many of you
1:22.4	have gone on to whatever podcast platform that you stream through, Apple, Spotify,
1:29.4	Google, I don't know all the ones that are out there, and you have rated us, and the ratings
1:34.4	continue to grow. Thank you so much for that. Thank you also for buying and sharing lies my
1:40.9	therapist told me. You may know that it recently got Book of the Year with
1:45.7	ACBC and we just crossed 10,000 copies that have been sold and we're not even at the first year.
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