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Learning To Love and Learning To Lead

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Learning to love and learning to lead takes a look into Chelsey and Corey's marriage. They continued to find themselves in hard seasons of marriage due to both of these things. If Corey didn't lead Chelsey, she didn't want to love him. If Chelsey didn't love Corey he wrestled with the desire to lead her. Over the last 6 months of being challenged and convicted by the spirit this episode takes you into the redemptive gift they've found in their marriage. A heart willing to love regardless of how one is leading and a heart willing to lead regardless of how the other is loving.

Learning to LOVE

  • We are called to love our spouse regardless of how we feel.
  • Ephesians 5:33 - "let the wife see she respects her husband".
  • This means LOVING him in all circumstances.
  • 1 Peter 3:1-2 also give us clear dicrection on why we are called to show them the love of Christ at all times.

    • Guard the GIFT of MARRIAGE

    • This is the most sacred relationship God entrusts us with on this side of heaven.
    • If I'm not guarding it, praying for it, and doing the hard work I'm missing the call God has aked of me.
    • We need to see marriage as an HONOR and PRIVILEGE.
    • We need to show our mixed up culture what marriage was designed for, to glorify and honor Christ.

      • Wives - our man isn't called to be our savior

      • I found myself putting Corey on the throne and not Jesus.
      • I was putting expectations on Corey that we as sinners can't measure up to.
      • The Lord tells us many times in scriputre there is NO other God. One being 1 Timothy 2:5.

        • Learning to LEAD

        • I found myself in a place knowing I wasn't living out the call in my life.
        • I was spending more time "doing good things" then doing "the BEST things" in regards to serving my family.
        • Matt Chandler quote - "God needs more men, not boys who shave."
        • I was able to finally see leading Chelsey isn't a choice, it's a call God placed on my life.

          • **Mens Group and Having Accountability **

          • I'd been in groups before and I know I'm always in a better place when surrounded by community.
          • This group has become a band of brothers for me. Some of us are in great seasons, some of us are in hard seasons, and I knew I'd fall somewhere inbetween.
          • It keeps me accountable to being in the word and staying connected.

            • Fixer Tendency

            • I found it was easy for me to see you were being fed in bible studies and other ways so I felt it was being "taken care of".
            • The problem with this is we should be growing in our faith together, even if we're not at the same place in our walk.

              • One of the things I really want to tell the wives is, you probably wont be the one to lead your husband back to Christ. It's hard but you need to pray for a heart willing to ask Jesus to bring someone into his life that can. There are some things wives can push their husbands to but faith doesn't seem to be an area that is well recieved. -Corey

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