How to Live with an Unbelieving Spouse

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About This Episode Being unequally yoked means one spouse is walking in obedience to God and the other is not, and it can amplify every other struggle in a marriage. Prompted by a listener's question, Aaron and Jennifer speak to husbands and wives married to a non-believer, or to a spouse who claims to be a Christian but doesn't obey God's Word. The most important thing in that marriage is salvation, and the desire to see your spouse come to know and love God matters more than happily ever after. They walk through four biblical steps and encourage the believing spouse that there is hope, and it starts with the one who knows God.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode Get God's perspective — He wants your holiness over your mere happiness and loves your spouse more than you do See your spouse rightly — a brother or sister who needs salvation Don't leave — why 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 says the unbelieving spouse can be won Pray for them and for yourself — only God changes hearts, so ask for their salvation and your own endurance and peace Be an example — how 1 Peter 3:1-2 describes a spouse won without a word by pure conduct The Case for Christ — the Lee Strobel story they share as encouragement Your first ministry — why the believing spouse's marriage is where ministry begins

Scripture Referenced 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 1 Peter 3:1-2 1 Peter 3:7

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