113. Passive Husband/Passive Wife - What does this look like and what can it lead to in your marriage?

Unrelenting Pursuit

Oxford dictionary defines passive as "accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance." Is this your life? Is this your marriage? Why do we have a culture where this is so prevalent in marriages, and why is it silently killing so many? On this episode we dive into all of it. John Eldredge says in his book Wild at Heart that "Every man needs a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue." This is playing out in culture for so many by replacing these God given longings within us with numbing tactics and by checking out...and this goes on both sides. We love what 1st Corinthians 16:13-14 says " Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love."

Jesus was not passive, and He doesn't call us to be. If you are a man, you need to balance being a servant and savage, a lion and a lamb. You need to provide, protect, and you need to preside. Is that what you are doing? If you are a woman, you need to release control, you need to have the hard conversations you need to help your man see who God has called him to be, and you need to stop trying to play every role in the home. Is that what you are doing? God has a design for marriage...YOUR marriage! It is time to step into that and learn what He is calling each of you to do. We challenge you to go to Ephesians 6 and memorize and learn about the armor of God and TAKE IT UP!

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