623. How Do I Show My Spouse Grace? | Ask Paul Tripp
Jun 22, 2024
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Best-selling author and pastor Paul Tripp discusses showing grace in marriage. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and applying grace, explaining how it can lead to healing and growth in a relationship.
Grace in marriage involves dealing with wrong without anger or retaliation.
Confession and forgiveness are crucial for maintaining a long-term marriage and fostering growth.
Deep dives
Grace in Marriage and Parenting
The podcast delves into the concept of grace in marriage and parenting, emphasizing that grace is not about permissiveness or denying sin but about dealing with wrong in a way that does not respond in anger or seek retaliation. Grace is described as being an instrument of God's work in a marriage, revealing spiritual needs and aiding in sanctification. An illustrative example from the host's marriage highlights how responding to sin with grace can lead to confession, forgiveness, and being a tool of redemption.
Confession and Forgiveness in Marriage
Another key point discussed is the importance of confession and forgiveness in maintaining a long-term marriage. The host emphasizes the significance of owning up to revealed faults and extending forgiveness in marriage. By exemplifying these qualities and being open to God's work in the relationship, couples can foster a deep sense of grace, leading to growth, humility, and ongoing commitment to the sanctification process.
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In this episode, Paul answers this question about marriage: "How do I show my spouse grace?"
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