Christ's Church of the Valley (CCV) likes to run short, 250-word stories in each weekend's bulletin to tie in with the sermon or events happening within the church. The approximate bulletin count is 9,500 every weekend.
Making Marriage Work
Tony and Nancy Smith had to travel the road marked full of pain and brokenness before their marriage was restored. The breakdown in their marriage was partially caused by ignoring each other’s needs instead of nurturing them.
“Throughout our marriage, I did not understand my needs and Nancy’s needs were so different. I just assumed that we both needed the same things. This lack of understanding resulted in us growing apart from each other,” Tony explained. Their story sounds familiar and reminds us to not take the commitment of marriage lightly…doing so could have major consequences.
After four years of being married, Tony began having an affair. Nancy had every right to seek out a divorce, but an inner voice continued to speak to her every time she moved forward with it. In fact, the very day she was to pay the lawyer to set things into motion, she ended up walking out of the lawyer’s office with her check in hand. She just couldn’t do it because she knew God had other plans for her marriage.
During this time of brokenness, Nancy had visited CCV and felt God holding her for the very first time. “I knew that God wanted me to follow Him from that day forward, and I told Him that I would,” Nancy recalls.
Shortly after, Tony started attending church with Nancy. With the support of a Christian marriage counselor and their church, Tony and Nancy committed their marriage to Christ and have followed Him closely since then. “We are truly in love and make sure that we meet each other’s needs every day. We put God first in everything we do!”
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