If you want to save your marriage from endless fighting, the key is learning to win the spiritual battle. And that means consistently choosing to fight not with each other but doing battle together against the one who comes to steal, kill, and destroy, a renowned author says.
In much of Gordon Dalbey‘s work, the best-selling author deliberately emphasizes the reality of spiritual warfare, and in light of the widespread relational turmoil, rampant divorce and family breakdown in modern culture, perhaps no area is more visibly plagued by it than marriage. Best known for his wisdom found in his 1988 book, Healing the Masculine Soul, his latest book, Loving to Fight or Fighting to Love? Winning the Spiritual Battle for Your Marriage unpacks the strategies the Enemy wages against marriages, counseling couples everywhere to engage Him who restores all things.
Some years ago while at a conference, Dalbey was asked if he and his wife, Mary — with whom he co-authored Loving to Fight or Fighting to Love? — ever fought together, the author recounted in an interview earlier this month with The Christian Post.
“I replied: ‘Oh yes, we always fight together. Side by side, against the enemy.”
Everyone was a little puzzled by his response. He then admitted that, yes, sometimes they do fight together against each other.
“When couples fight they always think the issue is ‘Who’s right?’ when of course both parties think they know the answer to that question, or else they…
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