Today on Summit Life with JD Greer, Christian marriage is recognizing the unmarried

favor that God has shown to you in Christ and showing that same type of unmarried

favor to your spouse. You say, well, my spouse doesn't deserve my service. Of course, they don't.

That's the point. You didn't deserve it from Christ, either.

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor and Author JD Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vittovich.

You know, no matter how you slice it, the divorce rate in America today is shocking.

Even couples who manage to stay together often find that their relationships become distant,

loveless, and unfulfilling. The flame that started out so bright has burned down to a flicker

or is out completely. Yet we continue to hear that marriage is the key to happiness and

wholeness. So what are we missing? Today, Pastor JD talks about one central issue that can

break down any relationship, friendships, and marriages alike. Also, don't forget to stick around

until the end of our program today. We have a fun resource to share with you this month.

But right now, let's join Pastor JD for today's message that he titled Self-centeredness.

We have been in a series for the last few weeks called Home Records,

or we are looking at the things that the Bible points to that corrode our relationships

and destroy our homes. Now, you know that my preferred style of teaching you is just to find a

book of the Bible and kind of walk you through it. But what we've been doing in this series is

we thought it'd be good to take a few weeks and just kind of pull back a little bit.

And what we're doing is we're studying some core biblical principles and then applying them

specifically to the home. This weekend, we are going to look at something that absolutely

destroys marriages, absolutely destroys marriages. One marriage council I was reading said that

this was the issue behind most all of the other issues in marriage. And by the way, as I do every

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