It is difficult to wear a cross while bearing a crown. It is also difficult for marriage and ministry to be borne together. For the ox and the donkey to plow together will create uneven rows in the field so the ministry and the marriage is often uneven, out of balance and even crooked.
Ye, we don't admit that we sacrifice our marriage for the ministry. We won't confess our frailties of unresolved conflict in the home. We won't even repent of our overcrowded schedules that place marriage in the back seat.
We run to the fatalities of our congregational families, chase the firetrucks rushing to put the next fire out, and even pray over hurting people, without the realization of the pain in our own marriages.
First, we must meet with our wife and repent of neglecting our marriage. We are setting a step by step process of reconciliation and restoration.
Secondly, we willmeet with our church board and design a schedule placed around my marriage and family first, with the important and urgent penciled in secondly.
Third, we will plan weekly dates where the two of you can talk, laugh and have fun together again.
How can two walk together except they be agreed and how can tow minister together unless they walk together?
So fourthly, pray together. Thanking God for the other and asking God to make you the husband God intended for you to be.
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