What Breaks Ministry Marriages?
We have seen God work in ministry marriages in which silence and distance never escalate to verbal attack and preaching throats are raw with angry words. God works when addictions are an issue and when they are not. He finds ways to nourish weary people with grace and healing when they stagger under hopelessness. But He works deeply, sometimes using pain as His main language. I did not willingly embrace His grace and healing because this threatened what I believed and pointed loving fingers at my sin. His healing hand led me to grab after concepts and practices I had preached against. He did not do it my way. What God did for me, He did the long, hard, humiliating way. To discover the Lord’s constructive work in ministry marriages, one must look deeper than most in the current church are willing. One must analyze the sources of the widespread damage and propose solutions that work, instead of beating the same soundless drums. Worn-out, easy answers are useless.
