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🗓️ 19 June 2025
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The Bible tells men to love your wives as Christ loved His church. Greg talks with John about some of the sacrifices he's learned to make as a husband. Also, Jim Daly and Ryan Frederick explain why being a good husband means choosing sacrificial love continually.
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0:30.9 | Well, Paul wrote in the book of Ephesians that husbands, we are to love our wives as Christ loves the church. |
0:43.8 | And he gave his life for the church. |
0:46.9 | Practically, how do you and I give our life to our wife? |
0:50.3 | I'm John Fuller, along with Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron. |
0:54.0 | They lead the focus marriage team, and Greg is a husband. |
0:58.0 | You lead through sacrifice. |
1:00.1 | I mean, that's what husbands do sometimes. |
1:02.5 | What are some examples of that and how that's looked in your life? |
1:06.1 | Yeah, I think for me, I try to look at in two ways. |
1:08.6 | One is, how can I serve Aaron? And so I define serving and |
1:12.9 | sacrificing as two very different things. So I think serving is when I recognize that I get this |
1:19.3 | privilege of helping to bear Aaron's burdens. Like whatever's troubling her, whatever help she needs, |
1:26.1 | she needs me to stop and grab something to the store. |
1:29.4 | To me, that's more serving her, just making life easier for her. I think sacrifice is such a |
1:36.3 | beautiful concept because it's taking something that you own, so you have to possess it and that |
1:42.8 | you value and you give that to your spouse. |
1:45.4 | For example, that could be comfort. |
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