Both my wife and I came to Christ when we were kids. Did you have a God-sized vision for your marriage, Rob? Did you have a God-sized vision-I know the answer to this, by the way-I read your book. I’ll just ask you what Bob just asked me. They live near Chicago, and he has written this book that is subtitled Capture a God-sized Vision for Your Marriage. They are the founders of Visionary Family Ministries. It’s a pleasure to be with you.ĭennis: Rob and his wife Amy have six children. We have a friend here in the studio who-well, I think he’s a kindred spirit, Bob, what do you think?ĭennis: He has written a book called Visionary Marriage. By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” We need wisdom to build our homes we need understanding we need knowledge. Proverbs 24 makes it clear, “By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established. So, marriage and family are really important to what God is accomplishing on planet Earth. All throughout the Scriptures you see God’s truth and His favor being passed down through generations-or evil being passed down through generations. But I think it was really, Bob, when I got into the Book, the Bible, and began to take a look at the blueprints of Scripture and realize that marriage was not designed by God just so we could have our needs met.ĭennis: There were noble, holy purposes for marriage that God had in mind when He created the institution.īob: I think most people don’t really understand how foundational and fundamental marriage and family is to God’s purpose and plan for humankind on earth.ĭennis: Well, the book of Genesis starts with a marriage, and the book of Revelation ends with a marriage. I think Don Meredith-Don and Sally, who helped start FamilyLife back in 1976-contributed to it. Hendricks’ classes at Dallas Seminary?ĭennis: I would say it started then. I wish I could say that starting out our marriage I had the best vision for my marriage of all time, but I didn’t.īob: So when did it come? Did it come when you were sitting in Dr. Our honeymoon was one of the best of all time. How long after you’d been married did you start to have a vision for your marriage? I mean, you didn’t when you said, “I do,” right? You had a vision for the honeymoon! (Laughter) Did you have any vision for anything beyond that?ĭennis: It was a two-week vision for the honeymoon. Stay tuned.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. Today, Rob Rienow joins us to talk about the difference between being a Christian husband and having a vision for your marriage. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. I expect her to be happy, and pleasant, and kind-I mean, I like a happy wife as much as the next guy-but if I, as her spiritual head, don’t have a plan to nurture those things in her, how can I possibly expect those things out of her?īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Monday, October 17 th. Rob: Basically, the Holy Spirit zeroed right in and said, “Rob, you have not woken up a single day of your married life with the front-burner thought that Amy’s spiritual growth that day was your responsibility and you’ve never had the thought-not one time-that you shouldn’t expect anything out of your wife that you’re not intentionally investing into her.” He was working as a youth pastor, trying to equip and encourage parents to have an impact in the lives of their children and to build strong families-when all of a sudden, he had his own wake-up call.
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