Chip ingram family7/31/2023 ![]() ![]() We've had major marriage issues during that time. Now, we've got thirty-eight years under our belt now. We're going to talk about God's prescription for a strong family. All I knew is she loved God, I loved God, we wanted to have a great family, I loved these two little boys, God gave me the chance to adopt them later, but we didn't know what we were doing. ![]() I share that because I met her about two and a half years later, we had an interesting courtship, to say the least, and we got married, and the first three weeks was great. She found herself with two little babies, no husband, no income, and in the midst of that her boss led her to the Lord. ![]() Her husband found out he could make more money selling drugs and he departed with another woman to another state. I learned early on that Theresa had been married before, before she was a Christian. I honestly thought most Christians were crazy, and then I met somebody, didn't talk about it but lived it out, and their love for one another convinced me that I should explore the New Testament.Ī little bit later, Jesus became the Lord of my life and I very imperfectly followed Him. I never opened the Bible until I was eighteen. I didn't grow up as a follower of Christ. And so I thought the only way to really make a good family is to marry someone who came from an alcoholic family so that we would have lots of dysfunction to get started. ![]()
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