Jeff and I dropped the kids off with their grandparents, my parents, and flew to Fresno, California in the middle of a heat wave. Fresno is in the desert in California and when we got off the plane, it was 111 degrees Fahrenheit, and we went to this absolutely fabulous Church called ‘The Wall’ in Fresno to do a marriage conference than actually really a relationship conference together.
The thing that was so cool about this Church is that the average age in this Church as I think has over thousand people in it; the average age of the full Church is 25; the average Christian is 25 and that is so exciting to us because even though we are a few older than that. Aha! Actually a more than a few years older than that, we hear all the time from people who hear the findings about how men are wired or about the women are wired and they say “Aha! We wish that have been able to hear that’s right at the beginning of our marriage or how we wish we have been able to hear 1:28 we are dating or seriously quoting our future styles.”
What we have been able to understand so much better how to prepare for marriage by truly understanding what was going on inside the other persons head, and so this is a delight to be able to speak through a group of people who many of them had been married for one or two years at the most, many of them were dating and to be able to get them on 2:02 and hear the kind of questions that they asked and they have this real sense of eagerness and freshness, that they just wanted to understand what was going on and they didn’t come with a whole lot of baggage, with preconceived notion and that was so refreshing for us, because so often we are used to speaking to people in their forties and fifties who have undergone a lot of heartache because they have been doing it wrong for 15 or 20 or 30 years.
And here we are 2:33 these younger couple, before the heartache happens and giving information and knowledge and tools that we help grow, cut that off so that the heartache never happens and it was just wonderful to be able to do that with a group that. It was lot of energy, lot of fun the Church had bought a whole new building and all the Pastors were staying up until 2 o’clock in the morning striping out dry out wall and painting and pulling up 3:06 and I was just really amazed to see a Church that was growing at 3:11 and really wanted to do something 3:14 in the marriages within the Church even before they started.