Amanda and Speaker A recorded devotionals for The Marriage Course on the YouVersion Bible app. The course started six years ago as an ambitious biblical marriage resource, but was refocused around "freedom in Christ" after Steve Goss suggested narrowing the scope to emphasize how a believer's identity in Christ shapes marriage.
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Well, I know that foremost on my mind is The Marriage Course because we were just corresponding about it yesterday. Amanda and I have participated in recording some of the devotionals that were written for the YouVersion Bible app, which is an aspect of The Marriage Course. But why don't you tell us, just jump on in and tell us a little bit about The Marriage Course, and we'll go from there.
Yeah, thanks. The marriage course was kind of a topic a little bit 2 and a half years ago as well, and it's been a labor of endurance rooted in love, but it's taken much longer than we anticipated when we began actually now 6 years ago. Wow. We, I set out with a team of people to try to create it, you know, an all-in-one marriage resource so that if, if somebody hadn't gone through any other marriage course, it would tell them all that they need to know, all that the Bible says about marriage and It wasn't long, and that proved to be an impossible task. It's just too big of a goal. And so Steve Goss really challenged me: just focus specifically on the freedom in Christ message and what is unique about that message, what's distinctive about that message, and how that applies to marriage. And so that's what we ended up doing. And I think, yeah, I think it's it's it's an incredibly powerful message. Starting out with, you know, we we love our identity in Christ aspect of the freedom in Christ message, but the marriage course. Tries to drive home the fact that it doesn't apply just to you, it applies to your spouse as well. And yeah, that, that's amazing, you know.
