Home Improvement Ministries

I just got home from the marriage and family training, my wife and I attend twice a month. The goal of the training is to learn how to implement a marriage and family ministry in the local church, so since we are in striking distance with a new church that we are helping to started in Sept. 08, this info is going to be helpful.

We focused on Communication. "Truth telling trumps peacekeeping." Couples tend to fudge the truth to keep the peace in their homes. Fudging the truth is lying. What this does to any relationship is stunt its growth. "One can only experience intimacy to the degree one is expressing honesty." Honesty is always the best policy when done in love for the other person's benefit. Always use words that build up not tear down. Always choose your words carefully.

Don't do this: A woman was looking at herself in the mirror and she said, I am so fat. She then told her husband to say something nice, to be honest. So he thought, and thought some more and said to his wife, "You got darn good eyesight!!!!!"

The moral of the story is "Always speak the truth in love."