Marriage Q&A With Pastor Sean & Diane - Relationship Goals

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that you ever seen ever stops. So why would I, I know you're

gonna be there every day. So hold on, Earth.

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goes down. Good God almighty.

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the name of Jesus, when the Sun goes down.

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God. Who provides Honey in the Rock

water in the stone on the ground.

No matter where I go, I don't need to worry now.

Everything. I need.

You've got this honey. Brave thirsty for the living

world. Holy you can satisfy sweetness

at The Mercy Seat. Now I taste it.

It's not hard to see. Only you can satisfy there's

Honey in the Rock. Is Honey in the Rock.

There's honey in the Honey in the Rock freedom.

Water in the stone made on the ground, no matter where I go,

and I don't need to worry. Sweetie.

So tries to you, Jesus. You won't realize.

Well, welcome to the house. Today is something very special.

We were doing a child dedication Sunday and you guys can be see

it just for a moment here. And if we get an opportunity to

really dedicate these families, these parents and his children

back to God, our children are a Heritage from the Lord.

God has given us our kids, and one of the greatest things that

God can do in life is if we can Stewart our children.

And so today we get to blessing of really honor these families

Families. Get Behind these families, love

on these families. In the finals of the Bible were

a hand. It gives back, same will to God.

It's a gift from God. But also find this as more than

just a parent and a child, it's a whole family to Jesus.

And so you find some Joshua and it's so powerful is found in

Joshua 24. It says this, it says, now, fear

the lord and serve him with all faithfulness, you fear, God,

serve god with everything in your being.

You put Jesus at the center of your family.

Family says, throw away the gods, your ancestors, worshiped

beyond the Euphrates, river and images, your throw away, all

the, all the gods of the Earth, all the gods will around all

things we worship. Besides Jesus.

He says in serve the Lord sort of the one true God.

So the God above all gods, the name of all maze.

Put Jesus at the center of your family and Let Jesus changed the

culture of your heart and your in transforming our children.

But he says this in verse 15, both serve.

The Lord seems undesirable to you than what help me out then.

Then choose choose for yourself this day.

Whom you will serve whether the gods, our ancestors served on

the afraid, he's or the gods of the amorites, in whose lands,

you are living your going to serve the God of this culture,

the gods around you, the gods of all the things are going to

serve the one true Living God. But Joshua says this.

But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

Amen. And today these families coming

up, but they have chosen. Now they've made the decision

that Rupert Jesus, right. The Order of our relationships.

We want these to be God's children.

I'm going to raise my family, but these are God's and our

goals that he will change for Jesus.

Their hearts be transformed by Jesus.

They know Jesus and that we model for them was to be, but

it's we follow Jesus and our lives.

That's our calling as a dad. And a mom has families and us as

a church. Amen.

So they, they have made that decision and this is the

response of the people that Josh was talking to Justin.

The people answered far, be it from us to forsake the Lord, to

serve other gods. I love this verse 17.

It was the Lord It was a lord, Our God himself who brought us

and our parents out of Egypt, to the land of slavery and

performed. The Great Signs of her eyes.

He protected us their entire journey and among all the

nations there. What you traveled?

And the Lord drove out before us all the nations, including the

amorites, who lived in the lands.

And we too will serve the Lord because he is our God, I love

that. It was the Lord.

And that's a story. Get here of these families, it

was the Lord that rescued These parents it was a Lord that

protected their families as Lord that brought them to this

moment. There's a Lord that change them

and transform them as the Lord that brought people into their

path, to do this very moment that they could say, you know

what, Jesus is the center of our family.

So this is something that we have to go through the motion

on. This is something we believe

deeply in and you get a chance to hear their stories and what

God has done their family and this really testimony.

That it was the Lord, some have Holly come up and she's going to

share their stories and I want you guys just to give praise to

God for they're doing as I come up here on the stage.

Age love, never behind him and love him.

Amen. Love it.

Come on. Give it up.

Here we go. All right.

First up, we have the Wilson family.

He want to make your way up to the stage, here they come.

All right. Well, they are dedicating lame,

Jagger Wilson. He was born, July 3rd 2022.

These are his parents Gavin, and Mary Wilson, when asked what

specifically LED you to dedicate your child?

I said, Gavin married. Grew up on believing in God but

not dedicated to a church and they want Lane to love and live

with God Lane has their first child and they want him to know

God. We ask what was significant

about Lanes. Named Lanes.

Name came from Lane Frost, the bull rider Jagger was a unique

name. Both Mary and Gavin.

Loved from the early stages of pregnancy.

What is something unique about lane lane?

Has the biggest smile? He is so happy all of the time,

his little giggles are so infectious.

We also asked what are a few things that we can be praying

specifically for you and your child, they asked for prayers

for health, for happiness, and for financial wisdom as laying

gross. Let's give it up for the lane

one more time. All right.

Next, we have the Burt family because want to make your way up

to the stage. All right they are dedicating

Jameson and jayven first. We've got Jameson Keith Bert, it

was born, January 19th, 2017. These are his parents John and

Jenni Burt when asked specifically what led them to

dedicate their boys. I said we want to introduce

Jesus and our children's life at a young age so that they might

grow a great Bond. With our Lord and savior

something significant about James Jameson's name.

They said we just liked it. Jonathan good.

I love that. Pick one out of the baby book

but what something unique about Jameson, he's a bit corny and

has a little bit of a rough side but he's really passionate about

God and Jesus then we have Javen, Michael Birch, born

September 26, 2019. Same for Jason's name.

They just loved the name. Decided to choose that one but

something unique about him is that he is our Wild Child.

Old ball of energy and we would love to convert his energy into

a love for our Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ, a few specific

things. We can be praying for them and

their boys as for health, for safety and a passion for the

Lord, as they grow. Let's give it up for the Burt

family. I love it.

Next, we have the hosted family. Here they come.

All right. Today, they're dedicating,

Connor read ho sik, Haley, Lucille.

Ho stick and Lila Jane. Oh sick.

First up, we've got Connor. He was born, June 9th, 2013.

These are his parents, Eddie and Mindy hosting.

What specifically LED them to dedicate their kiddos today?

Because we've been a part of real life for almost a year.

Now, in our lives have never been better.

We want our kids to see how important their faith is how

amazing their God is. And we want them to see how much

they are loved by our church family as well, something

significant about Connors named Conor means lover of wolves /

Hunter and read means red-haired.

That's a strong. That's a strong name.

Something unique about Connor. Connor is a very motional and

apathetic Kiddo. He is quick to act when it comes

to helping then we have Hayley Lucille, ho sik.

She was born April 14th 2014. Something significant about

Haley's name. It means Meadow and her middle

name. Lucille is a combination of her

great grandma's name. Something unique about Hayley,

Hayley is a very determined little lady and she is the one

to look out for the kids who are Outsiders and make sure that

they feel like they are accepted and included.

Lastly we've got Lila Jane ho sik.

She was born November 14th, 2017 Lila's something significant

about the named Lila Lila means night and Jane means, god is

gracious, it's also her deceased great-grandma's middle name.

Something unique about Leila Leila is such a wild Spirit.

She loves to dance to the beat of Her Own Drum.

She also already knows she loves her God.

She's always the first to volunteer to pray.

A few specific things. They asked.

We prayed for over them and their kiddos.

They want them to have a spiritual hunger, a sense of an

intimate belonging and for their deepest struggles, to be

redeemed. They also want them just to have

a compassionate world view as they grow.

Let's give it up for all of these families that shows to

dedicate their kid us today. This is a very significant

moment and I know you guys have gone through so much, the got

just done so much in your life to get here, What the Lord Has

Done, Right? And it's amazing to see the

story of the Gods riding in each of you.

And today we need to take a special time of prayer that

we're just not behind you, but for you and this is your family

as well. And so, what we'll do is invite

you guys to stains the church, get on your feet.

We are going to Basically worship a song over them, but

we're gonna pray over him and this is a little different.

Some people kind of feel weird about it but this is our time as

a church to say we're behind you and we sing the song called the

blessing and it's really about praying something special,

someone else's life and the song of so applicable to the

generations that are in front of us, it's all in do as a church

is for you guys to actively engage in this song.

To see there's stories, maybe you don't know them.

But if you know them, you know, some of the struggles of stories

and they've taken ground from Satan to get to this point and

then Their struggles that people have, you know, that exist.

And so too for us, the church is to put our hands up and look at

these people. And just say, God used them play

breasting on them. And this is just a moment for

you guys to participate in this. And so I would encourage you not

to just sit back but to really pray and imagine what God can do

in this family and this is significant for the future of

their kids. This change the course of the

generations. And so Paul says you raise a

child in the way he should go, his partner was, he gets older

ones apart from it, and this is a good moment.

For them to say no as for no house or fall in the Lord.

And so let's get behind that. Let's love on them.

To give them more time. Is dying starts with song off.

Come on. So we sing the song, The

Blessing during our child dedication moments because these

words come right out of a passage in numbers when God was

setting up the temple and how they worshipped and he promised

the priest in the temple. That if you pray, these words

over the people, every time they leave the worship, I will be

with them. And so, that's our prayer today,

as a church is that not only we want, you know, these parents

dedicated. We want our church to be

dedicated to helping these little ones grow up and God help

these families do all that we can.

But then also, Also we want the blessings of God that he

promises to say that if I am going to be having these words

over these people than that blessing will come to their

life. So I'd like to invite you, you

can lift up your hands to pray over them and just take this

moment of really when you're saying these words of this song

Today, pray this as a prayer over these families today so I'd

like to invite you guys to sing. Lord bless you and keep you make

his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.

The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

The Lord turn his face toward you.

And I'll men just means that we agree. and I,

Come on. And how exciting?

Well, the Bible says, unless the Lord builds the house, the

laborers, labor in vain. So we're praying, may God is in

this guy's for you and just trusting the Lord.

Let me take you all the steps away in our church behind you.

Amen, love you guys. So give it up one more time for

our families today. Come on.

Cool man, I don't know if it gets much better than that just

to come together and just pray over these awesome, young

families and just see their boldness of faith and just

knowing that story for these awesome kids on stage is

starting now. And I also love the flip side of

that, the challenge that we have to say that we're going to stand

behind them and we are going to push them forward.

Faith and so I don't know, I think someone needs to get

excited for what God's going to do in these families.

Say let's give a big for God today man, awesome.

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Well, guys, we've been on this awesome series.

That's awesome. Kick these last several weeks

about relationships, really, just diving into that idea that

relationships are. Much deeper than the snapshot we

post on social media, right? It's so much deeper than that.

A relationship that's built on the foundation of God.

When the Lord is in it, that's the relationship that's going to

last. And so, what I want to do today

is I want to mix things up a little bit.

I want to invite Pastor Sean, and Diane to come up to the

stage for a special Q&A session. And let's just say, we're going

to put the real and real life this morning.

He's that sound good to you. So yeah you guys were challenged

to put in some questions. We're going to dive in.

We're going to put them on the hot seat today and we're going

to find out just some real practical tips from from a

couple who's been in the game for a while, they've got some

wisdom to share with us today. So will you welcome Pastor, Sean

and Diane, as we get into this real-life Q&A.

Come on. Make them feel welcome.

You guys nervous? I'm not nervous at all, man, we

just appreciate your guys as heart for being on the hot seat

today. I could imagine that it could be

a little bit uncomfortable a little bit nerve-racking.

Yeah, way to go, man. Thanks Lane.

I can imagine, you know, spilling the tea as the kids say

about your long relationship could be a little bit

nerve-wracking. Maybe, you know, I know that

some questions came in this week and man, You probably know more

than anybody else when you open up the floor to just general

questions at you never know what you're going to get, right?

So truth, I love it. So I'm excited to dive in but

before we do that just a little bit, if you don't know a little

bit about their story. So Sean and Diane kind of, kind

of the typical Highschool sweethearts - the sweetheart,

they were friends, kind of ran in the same friend group back in

Raytown, not Rea more Raytown. So the other side of the tracks,

keep it real. You want to represent anybody or

Shout out. I'm sorry.

No hahaha. Shout-out retail holler.

Hi, there you go. That's awesome.

They, they've got three little ones at home, just three bundles

of Joy. Just absolute blessings.

And what's really cool before that, they were called early on,

in their marriage to Foster you guys were called to Foster,

some, some young adults and they actually have an adopted 28 year

old granddaughter. So you guys don't look a day

over, 30 daughter. But close, what's that daughter?

What did I say? Jen daughter, great.

Well, she's Grand. She's really she's real swell.

She's a neat gal and that was my grandpa's a gun.

We'll get into that in a minute. Weird goddaughter.

My apologies, but it's really cool and really, and I think you

guys probably have you been here with us any length of time, know

they have a heart for people. They have a heart to not only

launch this church, reach the community, just new churches,

reach new people, right? They had a heart just to settle

here and Ray Moore. And and just bless this

community and what's really cool is beyond that is they have a

heart for marriages and relationships.

And these guys have just counseled so many people, their

fingerprints are on so many. Just general relationship

stories in this room and the next Gathering and Beyond

they've touched. So many people with just their

wisdom, they've lived it. That's what's really cool.

We're going to find out today, you know, they've been in the

trenches so they've got a that What about healthy marriages?

So like I said before we've been building up some questions here

and my first question. Are you guys ready?

I don't know. Let's do it.

Oh I promise I promise we're going to we're going to take it

easy on your gonna get real but it's not going to be crazy.

All right, this first questions to the both of you, all right,

so this is an all-skate for you guys and it says this, I like my

Sean isms. They're all skate to learn from

watching, you, Dad. All right, this was shot at

Diana. Says you guys have been married?

For 15 years, I want you to go all the way back before.

You said I do back when you were dating what were some keys that

you learned or had in place the set your marriage up for that

happily ever after success that made a big difference for

lasting marriage today We remember that time, huh?

Yeah, distant memory. No, I heard yes, this is Sean.

Drew clearly the comic relief of today.

Not me, it's okay but I can say for me I think there's a few

things like one is that we got to be friends first and I know

not everybody has that ability or the timing of the

relationship but that was really important for us.

Once you like add the romance into it, like we were already

friends. We already knew each other, we

already knew how to communicate and some ways we already were

connected. Friends, will talk more about

communication later, but the second one I think is really

key. Is that at that time in our life

when we did, like start dating we were, you know, later in the

college, not in high school, but we were both pursuing God on our

own. We both had felt like we were

called to do something big for God and it wasn't like, oh, let

me wait around to see what Shawn thinks or what Sean's going to

do or, you know, I wasn't building my future with God on

him. I was building my future with

God on God, and whatever God called me to do.

There's actually a really funny story when Sean was going to

propose to me and I didn't know it yet.

I had accepted a job in Chicago. We were long distance for a long

time and I was like cool piece. You know where I'll be like if

you need to catch up or whatever, but I was just like

carrying on with what God was calling me to do until that

time, when like our lives merged together.

So yeah, it's just kind of funny and the Lord had different

plans. Yeah.

And then ultimately, what brought us together is realizing

that will to be on Mission together?

Like I could look at Sean and his passion for God and look to

say, like I know that God can do more through us together than he

can do with a. And so that underlying Unity

made it so that we could come together and serve God so way

back when dating? Yeah, talking about Keys things

that we learned. And I would say, first of all,

we weren't perfect, we don't be inherently Keys.

Yeah, we learned, right? So some things, we learned some

things, we've kind of had going for us.

One things that worked out. We dated long distance for man,

three and a half years. It's pretty much yeah, longer

three and a half years and so it kept snotlout trouble, come on

somebody, that's, that's the blessing of being 60 miles away,

right? And this back, when you had a

cell phone, we had to be in the right spot in the dorm, you

know, to even getting signal as a press against the back door

for four years, you know. But the reality is, there's four

things are really a blessing for us.

One is you have to know each other outside of physically,

which I think a lot of relationships kind of gets

stale. Like they just get stuck right

there. They start doing stuff outside

of where Louis. It's like fire, you know, it's

like it's awesome when it's in its right place.

But super destructive when it's not.

And what happens? You just you get to know

somebody's body but you don't get to know anything really else

and so you don't really get to go deeper spiritually or

character, or their call and passion.

So we kind of had the blessing. He had to spend a lot of time.

Dino is jokes around. She goes, if we were closer and

you know a new you little more at home, I probably would never

married you haha. So that was those big I think

for us like seeing her Pursuit Of God, I mean I think you want

to marry somebody That's passionate about God, they're

pursuing God on their own and in just as much, if not more than

you, you're just chasing that. And for me like I realized, I

ain't like she was real serious about following God.

A lot of people just talk about it and they show up on Sundays

and stuff, but they're really not fighting for it, you know,

and I noticed in college, she went off and she didn't like a

Nursing degree and three years taking extra classes.

And it was pretty rigorous kind of study and she'd work as a CNA

overnights and is working out. Only hours a week or more and so

overnight should work in the Gulf of Saturday or Sunday more

like 6 a.m. it's you drive the church and she sleep in the

parking lot so that she could get up and serve kids in a lot

of program and a elementary-aged program and then go to church

and do it every single Sunday for years.

And so for me like that was like, ding ding, ding, right?

Like she wants something from God.

She wants to pursue God. And so that was really big for

me. I just kind of ring the bell,

right? And I think to is just, yeah,

that's the question. Am I marrying somebody because

it helps me pursue the things of God, more Ores or what is it,

right? Because ultimately ridges built

around, like, we're Partners together for things of Christ

and so for me that was the foundation, a lot of people

didn't have that or think that direction but for us, that was

really the key to laid out. So a lot of people like asked,

if he should you live together for he married, you know, save

some money, you know, you know, you can fit, you know, test

drive the car, right? You hear that all the time,

right? And I just feel like that's just

the Direction that God would have for you.

I think that's where you want to go at all.

Thank you and honor God. And then, as God brings you

together, and then he wants to get married, and then you can

learn all you want about Sonny's Body.

Come on somebody. Amen.

There's ones not wrong one person.

There's one guy excited today. That's awesome.

There's so many good takeaways from that.

And I neglected to mention earlier, you know, like this

this whole series and especially today.

I mean, if you're not married, if you're not in a relationship

man, take some notes. Today, there is so much.

Each gold and everything you guys said and one of the

takeaways that I got from that that I really enjoyed is like,

so many people I think think of relationships is 50/50, but you

guys really lined it up it's really a hundred, a hundred, you

know, I love how you really do been to like, you know, this is

my faith and I'm going this way. I'm pursuing God whether he does

or not. I think it's also cool.

How God honored that and brought you both together so huge,

takeaway me and I hope you guys are taking some notes today.

That's that's epic. All right.

Well, you ready for another all skate?

Another. Both of you before we divvy out

a little bit, I'm ready. All right, let's do it.

Our this for both of you. The next question came in goes

it starts off being married is often challenging especially

when you were a young married couple and the honeymoon phase

wears off. What was your maybe doesn't what

was your biggest challenge in your early years of marriage and

how did you work through it? She's looking at me.

I'll do it. I'll do it.

I'll do it. I'll do it.

Yeah. So man there's a lot of

challenges, right? I mean honeymoon phase.

I was thinking like we never left home in Phase.

Look at her face. Yeah.

That was yeah. You're right.

Yeah. That was over so that that

ended. No I think honestly like you

know we have the typical like you know, we fight we you know

she can't keep her hands off me. So that's the kind of fighter

off, you know and Y'all know making stuff up now.

Right? No, but I do think at the end of

the day, I feel like Back Being Young married.

Like once you got a honeymoon phase, you start to realize like

not my problem was myself, that was the problem.

Like I was, I don't know. It was like bad stuff, but it

wasn't great stuff like it Plateau.

Like the relationship plateaus on me, right?

And maybe she says, save ourself.

But like I did, you get to certain depth in like, you're

okay with that. Like, you didn't know any

different maybe. And so you start realizing as

problems. Even as pressure comes right.

As we have foster kids and things happen, like, wow, I've

got, I've got to be, there's got to be, there's got to be more of

Jesus in me. Like, I got to die to myself a

little more like and so patients and all these things character

inside myself. And I started realizing as

problems would happened that Ultima I'm not being the best

solution to the problems, right? And so, I think there's a lot to

say about that direction of, really just dined yourself and

just asking, God to work through you and learning to listen.

Listen, I think was really big. I don't know if that's a

spiritual gift that most people are gifted with, you know.

So I think marriage you start realizing like, hey, I've got a

Shepherd her soul and we're both very hard workers were both very

independent and I think the word maybe comes to mind is that for

most guys and people in general is just stubborn, right?

Like I realized like being if I'm going to go where God calls

you go, I've got to be open to things of God, more and more

patient, more loving, and I was thinking about like, Peter

Wright and he goes up to this really is what Jesus will start

back on that and Jesus says, hey, I'm going to die.

I'll be crucified and killed and raised again and Peter's like,

no you're not. And Jesus tells Peter like get

thee behind me Satan, right. And Peter's just kind of

stubborn and aloof and doesn't know what's going on and Jesus

does some very special it's just that later that week he takes up

the Inner Circle disciples, you know, Peter James John up to the

Mount Transfiguration and the voice of the father.

Like the glory of God has shown right?

Like there's smoke and they just crazy and there's they're

hearing the voices. He Elijah the see, Moses up on

this mountain. Mountain and they're just

afraid, and they're wondering what's going on?

Of course. God's voice is like, this, is my

son whom I love and they don't quite get what's going on in.

Jesus, tells them as they make their way down the mound.

He says, hey, I'm going to raised again the third day, the

Bible says you guys are like, whoa, so that's like the early

years of marriage. Like what?

Right. And then Jesus is kind of front

of them and they're talking about something that's so

interesting. Like, who's gonna be the

greatest in heaven? That's the question of talking

about. So it's all the glory god in

their ask themselves. Well, who's going there because

I saw Moses as all Isaiah. So I wonder if I'm to be up

there next year, you know? Like I'm over.

I'll be in the center of this equation.

I want to be by all about me, and Jesus didn't overhear like

physically, but he heard it and he goes to him and he says we're

just talking about and they're awfully quiet, right?

And he looked at me said hey if you want to be first and he'd be

last and if you know me the grace and the kingdom would be

the greatest survey. So I think early on that, that's

why I Learned was. You need to serve 100%. 150%.

Doesn't matter what some Bells does you doing?

God's calling you doing Serving? And Ingrosso.

Amen, I was it. That's why I got so, yeah.

I think bouncing off of that same idea.

It is early in your marriage. It's a period of dying to

yourself, you know, following what Jesus calls us to do and

saying, like, well, this is how I did it, and this is how I grew

up, and this is what I think. And so just there's times of,

like, teasing those things out of like, well, what are we going

to do in those things? And it's really easy at the

beginning, like full, I'm an only child.

So I never had a roommate till I got married, I guess, College a

little bit, but, you know, it's just like, how do you live and

share space? And all those practical things,

or you have to die to yourself a little bit to come to that full

acceptance of somebody else's ways, and things like that.

It hurts learning, you know, which, which of these am I going

to let go and which ones do I need to talk about?

But same as Sean. I think early in our marriage, I

really had to take a deep dive into me and how the problems

that I was causing can be detrimental to our marriage.

So I've shared with lots of Life groups that I've LED.

I had Dad pretty deep-seated struggle with insecurities,

like, throughout my like college.

And, you know, early marriage years that was really at a point

that it was debilitating to, some of the relationships that I

was in, it was preventing me into entering, into new, you

know, deeper relationships with other people in my life.

Preventing me from really fully trusting that God had brought us

together on purpose and that my job was to better me.

And to not say that, you know, I needed Sean to do certain things

to fill that need inside of me and putting Extra pressure on

him to say like well if he can measure up to this and if he can

meet this need inside of me, I really had to die to myself and

say, no. Only, God can meet that need in

me, and if I'm looking for it in him, that's not fair.

He's never going to meet, you know, meet that standard of

Jesus in my life. And so it was really a

transformational time of that in the insecurities from within me,

birthed out of me trying to do it on myself, trying to reach a

certain Perfection standard, trying to achieve all these

things. And then when it wasn't going

well, Saying while Shawn needs to you know feed into me and

helped me and it was this oh I'm not good enough, I'm not good

enough but the start of that sense is always I and me and

realizing that that false humility and that false way of

looking at life could be a actual absolute killer to our

relationship. And so God uses those first

couple of years to really transform me to be able to give

100% of myself. And not be, you know, relying on

me or Shawn to make our relationship work.

But on for the kids, Yeah, anything that's just again,

gold. Well, Diane will stick with you.

This is a straight to you. All right, it says, as a wife

and leader for Christ, where do you believe most ladies struggle

and their relationships? / marriages, what lessons are

Keys. Would you shares to make share

to make marriages healthy? Yeah, I think the biggest

struggle and maybe not just for ladies, but what I see when I

get to talk to women about, you know, relationships is

communication. I think so much of the struggles

that I have in marriage boil down to communication.

And I've identified like two main ways that I've seen this

play out in one. This is the one I'm guilty of is

under communicating, not talking shutting down having some, maybe

some unspoken expectations that I'm not willing to do or like

the silent test. You know.

Like, let me see if he really paid attention to what I said

and not. You know, any kind or I have met

with some other women in groups, over the years and had friends

who it's the opposite where there is overbearing

communication. It's over, you know, nagging

complaining, I'm always communicating about all the

things you're not doing and what I learned in there is a verse,

I'll show you the second that just slap me in the face,

really, well one time, but that neither way is healthy.

And the versus this, I wrote down.

So I would but it's a fusions 429, which if you grew up in

Churchill, so that's the first not to cuss, that's not true.

I mean that's in there, but that's not the big part.

So it says, don't use foul or abusive language, but let

everything you say be good and helpful so that your words will

be an encouragement to those who hear them.

And I think anybody in a marriage relationship, cannot

have to go back too far to. Think about once the time, I

said something that wasn't good and helpful you mean today like

this morning. Like when and so man filtering,

everything that I say and do through that lens of good and

helpful photos for Who is like me, who doesn't want to speak up

who won't make my needs? Or, you know, things like that

known. Then I have to say the things

that are good and helpful to keep our relationship together.

Maybe if I fall on the other side of that line, like I don't

have to say everything that I think everything, I think is not

good and helpful to Sean in a marriage and so it's like

finding that balance of like I want to my words and my

communications job is to be an encouragement to the hearer is

what that verse says. So what can I say that is going

to Courage him, that sometimes, that's saying hard things.

Hey, the way you said this or did this, that didn't feel good

like, and that's okay. And that is healthy and should

happen. But to say it in that way, that

it's helpful in an encouragement to him, to be able to grow and

change. That's really it.

So their keys on that. Is that filter?

Good and helpful. You can tattoo that on your arm

or whatever you want to do later after the Gathering.

Not letting the sun go down on your anger and another verse I

thought of and so we hear this verse that I didn't write down

the reference. I think it's Proverbs 25:11.

Proverbs 25:11

It says that like a word. Fitly placed is like apples of

gold. I loved I looked it up in the

NLT and it said timely advice is like apples of gold.

So like the car ride home after Sunday morning isn't the time to

be like you know you kind of messed up that whole part of

that message. That's not it for our marriage.

The car ride home on Sundays. Like babe, that was a killer

message, you nailed it, it was awesome.

People were like coming to Jesus left and right.

Like that's that moment if there's something that real girl

needs to be addressed, on Monday, we can talk about that

then. My job is to be a good and

helpful encouragement to him. So those are my tips bits of

keys to help well, as time is wrapping down.

I do want to give you the floor with the same question from the

guy's perspective. So in the interest of time, Sean

as a husband, and leader for cries.

Where do you believe most men struggle?

And what keys do you have? Yeah, so I saw a figure.

I mean, the opposite question of Diane apples of gold in the

frames of silver. So yeah, I think for For men,

it's out. I don't want to say EQ, but

which stands for yeah, I'm getting there too.

Good, bye baby. Good jobs, you, I love you the

best, you the man teachers. Tom be helpful.

No, like just expressing your emotions and like a helpful way

and then recognizing we're somebody else's at emotionally

or just recognizing where they're at.

At all. One of the great things you do

as a leader As You observe, right?

And for a husband for a spouse, you know, her for a parent you

Of your kids, right? You watch any good coaches

watching their team? And part of it is just how to

express. What's on your heart, or what?

God's saying to you, or like your own failure in a helpful

way. Most guys are like that can of

soda and they just hold everything in and then just

like, boom the explodes. And it's very difficult for guys

to express themselves. And so, I think for me, I think

the first thing is to have something inside of you that is

given by God, that's beyond what your ability is right now.

I guess we Supernatural. And I don't want to say it's

like the wound of the father, right?

It's just something you were never shown or you didn't see or

didn't happen to you. Their seeds are planted, That

Grew bad things. The receives that we're never

planted that aren't there and we can sit there and be upset or

blame or make excuses or we can say, okay?

And replace my understanding of how I do Life by my heavenly

father and not just by my Earthly father and that that

shoots that's foundational like you're going to give something

to somebody. You have to have it first and

You're not hard work as a man on the inside.

Say. I'm loved it.

So I can love. That's big most guys.

They will never say, they'll feel they feel abandoned.

They feel her. Feel let down to do, major up.

I'm not good enough. They're fighting to prove

themselves and all you do is look up.

So heavenly father and say, okay, yes, Jesus, yes, God,

you've done it all for me and now I am free.

I am, I'm confident. I'm bold.

I'm or God calls it. Be, I can give that away to my

spouse but if you don't have that, you can't give it and it

will become Um, destructive. So I see that quite often,

right? I can forgive because Christ

forgave me, I still Choose, You may make mistakes because Christ

chose me and that is foundational.

And that just kind of like coming to end of yourself is

like the beginning of coming to God, right?

In your relationship is going to show all those cracks and you

may have thought you had together.

You may not recognize that was a problem, right?

That, that wound is been there and so that's one of it and I

think another thing that guys will start with husband's is

being a spiritual leader in the home.

See a lot of mom. And women really just bringing

their families to church, you know, lead the way spiritually,

and I'm like God bless the women right?

Come on, right? But as men like we're called to

be that for our family were called to be the spiritual

leader so we got to get up. And hey, come on guys.

Let's follow Christ and be a model of prayer, right?

Don't expect anybody else to be any better or healthier than you

are. As a man.

And so you just say hey I'm on a field full prayer before prayer

I want to be family word of God. I'm in the word of God.

I want family to forgive, I forgive my family do this, I do

that. And so you change your culture

and you change your family's culture and it's really fun to

watch as God gets ahold of men and in changes their hearts how

the whole family starts to change because what guys doing

them. So, do you think you guys for

your wisdom on those really cool to hear both your perspectives?

Well, this is the last question and this is again back to the

all skate. This is for both of you, the

very last one, you guys are about 15 years into marriage,

right? So, I love all this is worded.

It says, if you are to make it another 50s, ha ha.

Let's change that to when people when you make it another, 15

years Ambien, how do you plan to keep your relationship fresh?

I mean, where do you go from here?

We've kind of talked about how you've done it in the past but

like, where does this next chapter go?

How do you keep a candle burning and not just coexist float or

grow apart? I can say, the first thing would

be to keep it real. So, real intimacy, real

relationships come. I'm out of vulnerability and so

being able to you know, bear myself and my dreams and my

desires and all those things to Sean is going to help us to move

forward as we continue to grow in each other.

The second one is to keep laughing.

I think are there was something besides God our relationship to

be founded on. I'd probably be humor and there

is a just a lot of moments where you get to have, like a full-on

belly laugh, and that is something that really what it

teaches you is not to take yourself, too, seriously to have

a short memory Three of your failures to be able to laugh

when things don't go the way you thought they were going to.

And just say, you know what, well, that tomorrow is another

day. We get to move forward from

that. Yeah, thing that just didn't go

the way it was, but that being, you know, quick to be a solution

quick to offer help laughing through that time and then keep

dreaming, I think it's something that's really big.

If you're talking about the freshness of your relationship,

like I think in God's word, it always says that God is.

He's doing a new thing, he's making a new song.

He's and I think inside of our relationships, we get to model

God in that way. Way and God will give us new

things or that you know that we hadn't thought of or maybe he's

speaking something to him that we can champion and celebrate

together. And so when you let each other

enter into your dreams in that way, and those god-given dreams

and things, he's called you to like something really cool

happens that he God is in it. Don't get a dream separately

from Sean. Now, we're together, we're one

flesh. And so, letting opening that up

to him and letting him being able to open that up to me, is

just so key to keeping him fresh, keeping you keep

laughing, keep laughing. Yeah, Dad, I love to travel.

I'm not much of a traveler but she drags you along, you know, a

couple months ago. She's like, hey, when we get to

Kenya I'm like, what when we going to Kenny?

Again, you know, just it's on our hearts on my heart.

You know? I think I like to question their

like if at some level because you're not really guaranteed 15

years, you know? And by God's grace, like I see a

lot of guys just get become about themselves, they just make

it about them. So selfish, just think I'm over

it and they walk away and somebody's not willing to do

this. And I see a lot of ministry

couples. I think we saw a stat there.

They said there's like 40 percent of marriages like her

fault part in the ministry. I mean, just, there's just so

many traps, you know, there's so many quicksands for everybody.

And so, I like the Riff and then it had a, I always try to keep

in perspective that my time is a gift, right?

And so, like, I might not be here tomorrow, you know, I mean,

so, Even if it ends like okay death, do us part right it.

So, I'm looking, like, kids, you Undead, give it all today, you

know, guess if I'm not there because I'm not guaranteed of

anything. It's so I just kind of try to

keep that like number your days perspective especially in your

marriage like not going to bed upset right now the sun go down

on your wrath and not to if you don't say something then you

chose to forgive it. The my opinion, if you're going

to go to bed on, be better than you have to create, you have to

forgive and move on. That's, that's a choice, you

make. And so just like, Starting to

clean slate every day. I think really helps.

You know what's it matter to you?

Is it worth it? I also think about, like, are

you going to lose all this, you know?

So like if I'm gonna do something dumb or start pursuing

a direction, or look at something, or just not care.

Did you, did you weigh that out in your mind before you started

that? So I just start, moving away

from things that are destructive to my life.

So I'm not going to find habits or hobbies that take me away

from her all the time. So I don't have a guys night

like, I love you all, you know. Just just on me.

So I might I'm super valuables on this bill and family night,

you know. So we do family move and I and

we do all the stuff and I just can't spoil the kids to you know

and but also think the day like if you're going to make it the

15 years and we're God's going to call you to go the question

it wasn't for me. Like how do you keep it fresh?

I think the question would be, how do you keep it fruitful?

You know like fresh kind of goes away, you know, you get enough,

you know, laps around the track you know you don't have all the

feelings all the time. You know, all these things but

it isn't fruitful, right? And we like fruitful come.

All. Somebody be fruitful and

multiply right. You won't have both.

Right? Depends.

But I think fruitful for like, is a proof for kids.

It, are we together producing the things of God?

I'll are we together? Make an impact?

Our community. We make an impact in our family

are we are we together on Mission and we're producing

things that grow its a four dozen you plant it and grows on

its own. So are we like Sending vessel.

So the day like I'm less concerned about like a fad or a

feeling, as you know, those are going to come and go and he

loved all the feelings, right? And you do things for that.

And I talked about some stuff you can spice it up, right?

But the daily, something that sustains its fruit and they were

major buyer fruit. You know, we're measuring stuff

that survives the fire being burned and what the works of God

were so the day. Like that's that's we're

fighting for, you know, to be fruit berries for the cause of

Christ. And so I think just sitting on

that is way. Has way more longevity.

They were God wants us to be than just chasing the feeling.

So. Well, as we wrap up here, I just

want to say to Sean and Diane and I think you guys would Echo

be in this. Just thank you guys for your

leadership and just leading this church.

Well, I know we appreciate you guys being an open book.

I can't imagine, you know like just kind of, you know, the

butterflies but I just get to ask the questions.

I just gives you the messenger, you know, but you guys are so

glad you didn't pick any crazy questions.

Drew. I do not like they're also

people It's either swipe a couple of them were either fight

against myself to do that Shawn, but I do keep it, you know, a

little mature. Thanks for down yourself,

through this one time. No, but no seriously you guys,

you guys leave this church. Well, and I just love knowing

that when or if things get hard like, you know, my own

relationship. I've got you guys on speed dial.

You guys model that you guys model for us how to communicate

with our spouses you guys model for us.

Just seeking him first, and knowing that that's the anchor

that in the foundation that any relationship will be built upon.

So I know, I appreciate it. I know I'm echoing.

What? They're thinking right now as

well. And just again, just we

appreciate everything. You guys have done this morning.

So can we give it up for Sean and Diane for Jake and Jesus

being real with us man. Thank you guys.

I tell you, man. One of the Highlights today,

Sean talked about early, you know, during the dedication, you

know, just really at the heart of every answer.

Whether it was said or not, is all of this works because the

Lord was in it, right? And just this idea that as for

me and my house, we will serve the Lord and we got to see these

families. Make that decision today with

their kids up here, just declaring putting that I love

this imagery. So I'm going to I've been saying

it all morning, I keep saying it putting that stake in the

ground. Right.

Even without putting at stake in the ground for your family.

And just saying, you know, we might have been doing other

things before today, but as of this moment, lead my house.

We're going to serve the Lord, my marriage, our marriage.

We're going to serve the Lord together.

We're going to be on Mission together and I just, man, I know

there's so many stories in this room and there's so many seasons

that people are going through. And we've spent a lot of time.

On marriages and all that good stuff.

But me and I'm telling you, there's something for you,

whatever season you're in, you might be young and never married

and that's way off in the future to smartest thing, you'll do,

you'll never regret taking notes.

Now, you'll never regret coming up with a game plan.

Now you'll never regret looking back that you decided to get

your relationship rock-solid with the god that loves you.

Heaven and be confident in yourself before you're ready to

pour out into someone else. You'll never regret that and I

hope you hear that today. And there's there's other people

to there's people that they're walking through a season of

singleness and he didn't want to do you know what I mean?

I'm sorry, Emma. I'm saying I don't mean to

Bubble up here, but they're walking through a season that

they never thought they'd be in, it's not fair, right?

It just, it feels that way. And God, I hope that you're

just, you're taking notes and you're just, you know, taking a

season to heal and just getting ready for what God has next kind

of say to you. God's not done with that story,

yet, it's not done. God's got something for you.

You're not broken, you're not. What's in the past is in the

past. Me and God has got something for

you today. And I just want you to know that

just like we lifted up these families.

We lift you up today. We're behind, you were for you.

God's got something for you. I don't, I can't tell you how

long, the season last sir or anything like that, but you

don't have to be a perfect picture as Godly marriage to be

loved by God. I hope you leave here.

Knowing Man, I just I want to just take a moment and I want

every I and every eye to close every head bowed and we're just

going to go before God today and just I just want to lift you

guys up everyone in this room. I just want to say, father God,

thank you for this morning and thank you for again just for

Shawna Diane just opening up and God just how much you've bless

their marriage and that you've just empowered them to be an

open book. You you've put relationships,

you've put people's hearts, you put people's Souls on their

hearts and he brought them together.

God and it and all those years ago that that decision to launch

a new church to take that step of faith has led to this moment.

We're so many Souls, mine included, Holly's included, we

just you led us here. And God hear you're a fighting

Us in the fire. You're growing Us in this

season, God and just just can't wait to see what happens next.

Is we just continue to reach his community, but we also know

that, as we're reaching out, we have to reach and God, just

thank you for the challenge today for the wisdom and just

help us not to just say. Oh man, that was cute.

That was cool to hear their story and all that stuff, help

us to find. The nuggets of wisdom in there

and help us to do something about it.

God, that's the hardest step. It's so easy to nod and just be

like, yeah, man, that's a good word, Sean yeah, man died.

And that was, that was so so smart, and it's so hard to do

it. Got so I pray, you'll give us

the courage today that you'll give us the boldness to do that.

God, there's there's relationships in this room,

there's relationships online. That are rocky that things

haven't communication. Has it been strong?

We talked about that stubbornness that eats us up as

guys we don't show our emotions, we don't communicate.

And we've been, there's people have been paddling God, I pray,

you will soften Hearts today. I pray that you will just be

able to let us look at our spouse.

Look at our partner and open up in a way that we haven't before

or that we have it in a really long time.

God, I lift up anyone in this room for any reason that's

walking through a season of singleness.

Because of their youth because of reasons beyond their control,

God poor it to them. Let them feel your presence this

morning in this week not alone there loved by you strengthen

them. Refine them in this season we

just pray whatever their next step in the journey is God, but

they'll be so in tune with you. it doesn't matter because

they're who they are their fullness, their Oneness is found

God, we just, we pray for broken hearts this morning and we pray

for broken families and we just we pray for miracles.

We pray for change. Really at the end of it.

God, we pray that your will be done.

And we pray that we'll have the strength to just remember that

everything that's happened. It's because you got you were

in. So if you're here, keeping your

eyes closed, your head bowed. If if you're ready to put that

stake in the ground today and say I'm ready to have that

conversation, I'm ready to open up the lines of communication

things have been tough but I'm ready to get back on the right

track. I'm ready to get myself right

with God as I prepare. My heart for this.

Next relationship is next. It is, I strengthen my marriage

as I commit to, to walking and leading with my walking with and

leading my family in the season. God, I just pray that everyone

in this room, who wants to do that, but you'll just raise your

hand and just boldly declare, we're not looking at you.

No one's going to see but God, We're proud of you.

God, I just pray over these families who are these people

and that you will just be with that.

And the next thing I want to get to you though is maybe before

you do any of this stuff, we've been talking about.

Maybe you don't have that relationship with Jesus yet.

Maybe you've heard the story, you have some kind of concept of

who he is and and what he's done, but you're not there yet.

Kind of say that like the words of that song he is for you

today. He loves you and he wants a

relationship with you. He sent his son, Jesus to die on

the cross and to rise again, he conquered death.

So we don't have to so we can be with him forever and and if it's

time for you, before any of this other stuff, just to put that

stake. The ground and say, you know,

I'm not leaving this room the way that I came in.

I'm not leaving this room apart from you, any longer God, if

you're ready to do that, I just want you to raise your hand and

just let him know that you're ready to do that today.

Get every eyes closed. Every heads bowed.

I want you to pray a prayer with me, if that's you now online or

here the room, and it's not the prayer that saves you.

It's just, it's just that next Step 4, but I want you to pray

with me and just say, dear Jesus.

I'm sorry. Sorry, it took me so long to get

here. Sorry for my sin, forgive me of

my sin, I Repent of everything that I've done.

That's led up to now. God and I leave that in the past

and I knowingly walk towards you and into your Open Arms.

I know you love me. God.

I know you sent your son Jesus. I know he died for me.

He rose again. And I know that I live with him.

I give my life to you. I'm married.

I get my marriage to you if I have kids, I give my kids to

you, my family just old me's done.

It hasn't gotten me very far. I'm ready to put it all in with

you, God and I'm ready to leave here changed.

I love you, God and I just thank you for your forgiveness in

Jesus name. Alright guys, well, let's give

it a big for anybody who made that decision today.

Let's welcome him into the fold. Awesome.

Minute, the statue today in today's the day, you chose God

first because he's pursuing, you can we delay?

You know that we're all in for you is the reason we show up

here every week because we're looking for people that are

making decisions because we know God's pursuing people.

So, if that's you today, I've got a couple great next steps.

First one is let us know about your decision by texting RL.

Next 29. 7000, what we'll do is we'll have one of our team

members reach out to you over the phone.

Hold jobs. You connected here.

Help you in any way that we can just get your resource we care

about you. God cares about you.

Number two, is if you're with us in person, on your way, out of

the worst, The center, there's a red bag, grab one of those

inside. There's a Bible, what a great

way. What a great Next Step.

Just to get started off on the right foot.

We want you to have that, there's other great resource

resources in there, so grab those on your way out.

Yeah, we were so excited for you.

I love how Pastor is Sean and Diane talked about choosing

today to serve the Lord, putting God first.

Well, that's in your marriage, your kids, your relationships

marriages, just anything and everything.

So for you guys, I've got a couple great next steps for you

as well. Maybe guys, put something on

your heart today. Maybe you've been looking for

And maybe realize the one and you want to know a little more

about it. So I want you to know there's a

special opportunity this afternoon.

We got a special course called crash course.

We'd love to have you come out, you can get signed up two days

from two to four Thirty right here at our Hope Center bill

will help you lead through the path of knowing god finding

Freedom discovering purpose and knowing that you can make a

difference. What that looks like here maybe

a real life so come check us out, we'd love to have you sign

up, you won't be alone. It would be a great time.

Come hang out with this. Number two is this, if you've

committed your life, Life to Christ.

Since the last time we did baptism, we were going to have a

very special Easter Sunday on April.

The 9th. We would love for you to be a

part of it. Baptism is the next step.

If you give me your your life to Christ, it is simply just

telling the world to that weird Edison were alive to God and we

want everybody to know it. In fact, it's really, it's one

of the last Commandments that Jesus gave us to go out and into

the world and preach and teach and to baptize people in the

name of the father Son and the Holy Spirit.

So we would love to have you a part of that.

You can sign up online. For that very special Sunday.

If you've ever been a part of our baptisms, you are missing

out. It is, a party is exciting.

We will tell your story. We'll just wrap our arms around

you. We would love to have you a part

of that. Last is this last step is this

choosing guide means choosing God daily.

It's not something we do once a week.

Once a month, we to a daily. The one of the great ways that

we do that here is being a in downloading, something called

the YouVersion Bible app. If you haven't done that, do it

today, do it right now. Pull out your phone because on

the universe. The Bible like you have access

to so many different translations, you have part of

God's word, but on top of that, you can go back and you can

follow along either during a gathering to the sermon that

Sean's bringing and you can take notes and at the end of the

notes, there's also a section called talk it over.

It's a section that we use in staff meetings at life groups.

It's a great way to reconnect with what God's LED.

Our trust has to go through that followings or that previous

Sunday. So download that today it's a

great way just to choose daily. What God's got for you to be a

part of that? Let you guys know that your

generosity makes a difference week in and week out and you

guys don't know all the stories of everybody that comes in or if

people are on stage, but I cannot tell your generosity is

what God is using to help break additions to help heal

marriages, you guys play a part of that.

So thank you so much for being generous and being faithful to

God in that way. Can I let you know if you're new

to real life? This isn't isn't for you.

We don't want anything from you. We want something for you, but

if you call a real iPhone, there's still three ways that

you can connect to generosity here.

The first is by going online at Real Life Church.

Kc.com number two, you can texting him out, eight, four

three, two, one, or if you want to use cash or cheque, there's a

giving box at the back of the Worship Center or you can drop

in the bucket says they pass. Lastly, is these buckets pass.

As always, if you or your family, find yourself in need of

immediate food clothing or shelter, please reach in and

grab any loose cash. If you see in just tell a family

in this time of need, hey, we've got an exciting opportunity

coming up this summer. It's a missions trip.

Take the second. Check out this video.

God can do amazing things through your life this summer,

traveling to Colombia with real life and so maybe you're

thinking, what would we do there?

Who are we going to reach who? What kind of people are we going

to see? So I want you to take a minute

or so and check out an awesome video that gives you just a

little glimpse of what God might do in your life this summer when

you go to bed. Guitar Colombia with us.

Check it out. That's a wrap.

What an incredible time we had. And I know God is going to do

exceedingly more this year as we travel to Colombia.

So, there is one more chance next Sunday, immediately

following the second gathering for you to come to an

information, meeting to learn more about our trip to Bogota.

So I want to see you there next Sunday, right?

After the second Gathering or come find me if you want.

Some more information about our trip to Colombia God's going to

do amazing things through you this summer and I can't wait to

see you again. He's never had the opportunity

to see how God moves in another part of the world.

Can I tell you that this mission trip is for you.

So, if you have even this much interest level, because you just

want to know something about it, get connected with Diane.

Check out the meeting this week. You won't be disappointed.

We would love to have you part of that.

Hey, if you guys need prayer for no reason, we would love to have

you up here. Also be ready as Dianne brings a

message. Of encouragement next week, as

we end our relationship Series. So don't miss out that next

week. And as you guys are headed out,

always remember that, whoever finds Jesus covers real life and

purpose. So you guys next week,