Real Marriage - Key #2 Building Intimacy

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There is a powerful lie in our culture about marriage - that Christians and non-Christians have the same rates of marital happiness, adultery, and divorce. This powerful lie keeps non-Christians from coming to church to get help for their family. And, this powerful lie also keeps Christians discouraged and feeling like hypocrites. But, this lie is untrue and the most comprehensive sociological research proves that church attending, Bible reading, prayer uttering Christians have the best marriages of any group of people. In this sermon, Pastor Mark blows up the cultural lie and replaces it with biblical truth as we learn the 3 things you can do RIGHT NOW to improve your marriage and family. Churches Are for Marriage, Not Just Weddings | Hebrews 10:24–25 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another…

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0:00.0	I should do this because I keep messing it up. This is like our 57th take.
0:08.0	Howdy, Pastor Mark Driska here with my wife and best friend Grace and I want to thank all of you through Mark Driscoll Ministries who give any amount to pray at any time or encourage with any email or social media post.
0:21.6	We've got a brand new sermon series. Real Marriage
0:23.6	it's six keys to unlocking all of your relationships, including your marriage
0:27.5	that we're teaching right here at the trendy church. I'm preaching. We're
0:30.0	doing Q&A and we'll give it all the way through Mark Driscoll
0:33.2	so thanks a bunch for helping us out.
0:36.7	Good to see you this is the second of our six week series unlocking
0:41.2	the keys rather to unlocking all of your relationships including your marriage and I had somebody
0:44.9	come up recently it was a really good question they said Pastor Mark why did you choose to do this series
0:48.8	and I said because I love you and I love our people and I want to help if I can.
0:53.4	And let me just say this that relationships are the most wonderful and awful part of life.
1:00.3	Amen.
1:01.3	Can we just be honest about that?
1:02.4	If you look back at your life, the most wonderful parts of your life.
1:05.0	We loved each other, we forgave each other, we reconciled, we built a great memory, we connected, the most awful, exactly the opposite.
1:12.0	We didn't forgive each other.
1:13.8	We were disconnected, not connected.
1:15.4	We didn't love one another.
1:16.4	We were embittered toward one another
1:18.3	that your life, let me tell you one statement
1:20.9	a pastor told me some years ago he said relationships
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