Monique and I have been applying the principles of Love and Respect, Ephesians 5:33, to our marriage ever since we heard the teaching from Emerson and Sara Eggerich through their ministry titled, Love and Respect. This teaching is available to everyone either through their book or through their video teaching. We have been on a mission to share this life giving message to couples for two years.
The message has several key truths. First, couples clearly understand the differences between female and male, pink and blue. Through funny life stories and examples, couples laugh and see the reality of the God made differences. The seriousness of communication issues are diffused in the light of these differences and tools are taught through the fundamental relational principles found in Ephesians 5:33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:32-33
Followers of Christ have some understanding, intellectually, of the unconditional love of Jesus Christ for all humanity. Husbands are commanded to give this unconditional love apart from their wife's performance. There is another piece to this passage however that sometimes gets missed. Wives are commnanded to unconditionally respect apart from their husbands performance.
Giving unconditional love to a disrespectful wife and giving unconditional respect to an unloving husband, produces power in the marriage relationship by speaking male and female language that melts and stirs hearts. This stirring releases couples from the Crazy Cycle that spins when we don't communicate in each others love language.
Pink and Blue, not wrong just different. Women seeing the world through pink sunglasses and hearing through pink earphones; men seeing the world through blue sunglasses and hearing blue earphones, these are one of the key visuals which help couples see how we are different and the communication challenges we face in marriage.
Monique and i have been able to decode each others language which has reduced misunderstandings and increased intimacy in our relationship. We are no longer battling to change each other in conflicts.
Attend the Love and Respect video conference in Friday Harbor, April 25th and 26th and receive a renewed energy and passion for loving and respecting your spouse.
For more information call, Vic and Monique Woodward - (360) 378-8435
