Welcome back to the Aspastor John podcast.

Today we enter day two of our 2015 conference for pastors here at Minneapolis.

This will be the fullest day of festivities for us at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

The pastor's conference is streaming online all day today, so go to desiringgod.org

forward slash live for the schedule and for the video stream.

We're joined again by Matt Chandler.

He's the lead pastor at the village church in Dallas and the author of the new book The

Mingling of Souls.

God's designed for love, marriage, sex and redemption and he joins us on the phone from

Dallas.

I've got 10 questions on relationships queued up for him and we're working through them

and we are on to question number four.

Matt, what can members of local churches do practically to help godly marriages happen?

Instead of just telling men to man up and get your life together and instead of simply

telling women to stop waiting around and be active in their singleness, what role should

community play in deciding who and when to marry?

Any advice for inviting others into a relationship to that end?

I just love this question because I'm just such a big believer in what god has called

the covenant community of his people to be in a local context.

I think the way that local churches can practically help godly marriages happen outside

of telling men to man up because I do think there's a space for that and telling women

to single women in particular stop waiting around and be active in your singleness.

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