Relationship Road Map: Turn By Turn Directions to Finding Your Spouse - Hardcover

Chandler, Stephen

 
9780593194287: Relationship Road Map: Turn By Turn Directions to Finding Your Spouse
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593194284 ISBN 13: 9780593194287
Verlag: WaterBrook, 2025

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Practical, biblical guidance for every step of your relationship journey—from single to dating to engaged to married from the bestselling author of Stop Waiting for Permission.

If you are single and desire to be married, you’re on a journey. And like any journey worth taking, this journey is challenging, exhilarating, and discouraging all at once.

Navigating the modern dating scene of apps and social media can feel overwhelming and disorienting—like trying to get directions without knowing your current location. Despite these challenges, there is a way to get your bearings, to date thoughtfully and intentionally, with your character and integrity intact. Stephen Chandler, pastor of one of America's fastest growing churches can show you how.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Chandler is the senior pastor of Union Church based in Maryland and the author of the bestselling book Stop Waiting for Permission. Since 2011, Union has grown from a group of fifty to thousands of people in weekly attendance, with tens of thousands joining live online every week. Stephen’s obsession with people, systems, and culture resulted in Union Church being named the fastest-growing church in America by Outreach magazine. A sought-after international speaker, he is unapologetic about helping leaders maximize their God-given passion. Stephen's true legacy is his family—his three beautiful children, Zoe, Roman, and Jade—with his wife, Zai.

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Begin with Your Destination in Mind

Know Where You Want to End Up

About four years ago, I got some great news that had the potential to impact my life in an extremely good way. When I found out, I knew I needed to stay dignified about it. Stay humble. I wasn t about to go on Instagram and holler, I m on top of the world!

You know what I did in my house when I got that news? I turned on So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast, jumped up onto the kitchen countertop, and started shaking what my mama gave me. Guess what my wife, Zai, did? She jumped onto that countertop with me, and we screamed and danced and cut up and had the time of our lives. I want that for you! I want you to have someone to twerk on the kitchen countertop with for the rest of your life. This process of finding the right person to spend your life with is one of the greatest and most important endeavors you can embark on next to knowing Christ. Why? Because . . .

Life. Is. Amazing.

Life. Is. Hard.

Life is full of so many wonderful ups, but it s also filled with some really difficult downs. When you have someone on your best days to share the joy, it makes a great day one thousand times better. But sometimes you ll be curled up on the couch together in front of the fire, crying your eyes out after a difficult day. Having an amazing person who is committed to you for life on those days is one of the greatest joys a person could have. Remember that the first thing God declared not good was for man to be alone. This tells us that marriage is good. And while not everyone is called to get married, marriage is one of God s most profound gifts to us. Dating, with the goal of finding God s person for you, can be tricky, but I m here to tell you that the journey you re on is worth it. There are few greater joys on planet earth ­outside of your relationship with God ­than finding your person and building an amazing marriage.

When you ve got a lover you can cut up with, it makes all the difference. The way Zai and I cut up is absolutely ridiculous sometimes. The Bible says that laughter is like medicine, and in a healthy marriage, you have someone to laugh with. You ll have your inside jokes, your secret handshakes. You were made to enjoy life with that person as long as you both live. The first relationship God established, after a relationship with Himself, was between a husband and a wife. And God created that union to be good.

This doesn t mean that there won t be difficult days. But it does mean that the number of those days will be cut in half. Had a hard day at work? In conflict with a friend? Get a scary diagnosis? There is someone at home who will hold you, encourage you, and feed you apple pie after one of those bad days. That person is in your corner. They ll listen to you. And this person is also going to double your good days! Dancing on our kitchen countertop with Zai? My joy was doubled. When you ve got a committed lover in your corner, your bad days are cut in half and the good ones are more than doubled.

You ve also got someone to build with. God hasn t given every gift to every person. In fact, I think that God purposefully doesn t give you all the tools you need to fulfill your destiny. He has placed some of the tools you lack in your spouse! For example, I m proud to be an introvert; I think we have the deepest relationships with others. The number of people who introverts know can be limited because of our discomfort in engaging new people. In ministry, what I started to find was that Zai would bring people into our world with her beautiful extroversion. That expanded our sphere of influence in our community. It expanded our support system. You hear it? I benefited from a gi

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Verlag
WaterBrook
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593194284
ISBN 13 
9780593194287
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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