{"id":302113,"date":"2010-09-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/new-tools-for-the-homebuilder\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:00:00","slug":"new-tools-for-the-homebuilder","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/new-tools-for-the-homebuilder\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tools for the Homebuilder"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FamilyLife has been hard at work developing a host of great new tools for a new generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2010-09-24.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"25.04M","filesize_raw":"26257245","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2821],"tags":[5009,4828,4919,4126],"podcast_series":[],"cwp_profile":[3142,3048],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302113","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reaching-out","tag-family-ministry","tag-helping-others","tag-marriage-ministry","tag-ministry","cwp_profile-bob-lepine","cwp_profile-dennis-rainey","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302113\/new-tools-for-the-homebuilder","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302113\/new-tools-for-the-homebuilder","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9cyv2cYEPe\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/new-tools-for-the-homebuilder\/\">New Tools for the Homebuilder<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/new-tools-for-the-homebuilder\/embed\/#?secret=9cyv2cYEPe\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;New Tools for the Homebuilder&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"9cyv2cYEPe\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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At that point\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One hundred and seventy three\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2026Grandchildren or whatever it was but I was looking at it and I was thinking about what kind of world are we passing on to our grandchildren?\u00a0 I started thinking about what\u2019s happening in the family nationwide.\u00a0 I have got to tell you, I believe what is happening in the family today in western civilization is nothing short of an all out crisis. The reason you are seeing me walk around here with an impassion fervor is because I \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tthink the time has come for individual Christians where they live to step up and make a difference.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMaybe for the first time ever we have a full toolbox of resources to offer men and women, whether it be singles who want to make a difference in marriages and families; married couples who have been married two weeks, two months, two years, twenty years, fifty years, we\u2019ve got some tools that I believe will address this crisis front and center.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, you know what? I believe its game time.\u00a0 I believe it is time we stepped up and began to make an all out assault back against evil and what\u2019s happening in the family. Make an assault for righteousness.\u00a0 An assault for good.\u00a0 An assault for the kingdom of God and Jesus Christ ruling in Christian marriages and families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, let me just say it back.\u00a0 You just said we\u2019ve got an all out crisis going on in terms of marriage and family.\u00a0 A couple that has been married for two weeks can pick up a tool and\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No doubt about it!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2026 but an all out crisis and some couple that has been married for two weeks can grab a tool and do\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hey!\u00a0 I was talking to a young lady just 24 hours ago, alright!\u00a0 I was having lunch with her and two other guys were talking to her on how we can break the nation down into either precincts or counties and put someone in charge of every county; every\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 state across the United States and organize so that the whole nation is covered.\u00a0 I found out in the process of the conversation she has been married for two months! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI said \u201cYou know what?\u00a0 You can take one of these resources we got and you can lead this in your church and with your friends in the apartment complex that you live. You can make a difference in your friends\u2019 lives with these resources.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThese are turnkey resources.\u00a0 Some of them as you know Bob are video resources.\u00a0 All they need is a winsome couple who can host them and put them on.\u00a0 You know what? It will pull people in to them and it will transform their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We are talking to a lot of people everyday who are already challenged enough just trying to make their own marriage all that it\u2019s suppose to be.\u00a0 The thought of somehow getting together to do battle against the crisis that\u2019s going on with the family, they\u2019re going \u201cI am having a hard enough time just being a good husband; good wife!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ll tell you what, there was a couple seated in one of our conference in 1993 and they had just gotten married.\u00a0 I think she had a child out of wedlock.\u00a0 He had never been married.\u00a0 They came to our conference because they knew they didn\u2019t have it together.\u00a0 They knew they needed the blueprints fast because they would get in trouble because they\u2019re both very strong willed people. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey sat in the conference and they heard the blueprints at the Weekend to Remember\u00ae and they said \u201cYou know what?\u00a0 We can take this back. We can take this back to our church and maybe a couple of others.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo they grabbed the HomeBuilders Bible Study and they took it back to their church and now 17 years later I had them stand up and share a little bit about what\u2019s happened not only in their marriage and their lives and what Gods done there but\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They shared this withour staff team recently.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That's right, that\u2019s right!\u00a0 They\u2019ve taken 1,608 engaged people through <em>Preparing for Marriage<\/em>.\u00a0 Our HomeBuilders Couples Bible study that prepares a single person, an engaged couple for marriage\u20141,608!\u00a0 I said \u201cHow many total have you taken through HomeBuilders?\u201d\u00a0 They kind of smiled bashfully and the lady\u2019s name who is Benita turned to Tazwell her husband and said, \u201cI think it\u2019s a little over 5,000.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow let me tell you something.\u00a0 When Tazwell and Benita started getting engaged with other peoples\u2019 lives if you could go back and have asked them at that point in their marriage and in their lives how much they had it together they would break out laughing because they didn\u2019t!\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to have it together!\u00a0 Somebody asked me who could be a HomeBuilder.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Who really is going to be a HomeBuilder across the nation? That\u2019s what we are calling this movement of men and women who want to make a difference in marriages and families across the nation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was asked that question I thought, turn to John 4. Look at the woman who came to the well and who met Jesus.\u00a0 She was a half breed.\u00a0 She was a Samaritan and in the process of talking to Jesus he told that her she had five husbands and that she was currently living with a man who was not her husband.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe stood astounded and Jesus said to her, \u201cIf you knew who was talking to you, you would ask me for the living water because I have the water that gives eternal life, meaning, purpose and refreshment at the deepest level. \u201c\u00a0 Of course that woman was astounded what Jesus told her.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know what she did? This broken woman who had five husbands and who was cohabiting with somebody else, she went back to her town of Sychar and brought the entire city out to meet Jesus.\u00a0 The cool thing in John chapter 4 is it says and many of them decided to believe on their own.\u00a0 Not just because of the woman\u2019s testimony.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, who is a HomeBuilder?\u00a0 Who is going to make a difference in these marriages and families across the country?\u00a0 It\u2019s broken people who have been forgiven much and who love much.\u00a0 People who have come to the foot of the cross and said, \u201cYou know what?\u00a0 I have found forgiveness in Christ.\u00a0 He has forgiven me for so much.\u00a0 I would love to be of service to him.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNot to earn that love, it\u2019s not a matter of earning that love.\u00a0 If He loved me this much shouldn\u2019t I be his ambassador?\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t I try and tell others about what he\u2019s done for me just like the woman at the well? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob, I think if you wait to get it all together you\u2019re going to wait until heaven because that\u2019s the only time in life you\u2019re going to have it all together.\u00a0 This is for people who are in all kinds of marriages and families!\u00a0\u00a0 One other thing I\u2019ve got to tell you is your seeing me on my soapbox.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am going to tell you something, it really is game time!\u00a0 This is a time when we have to make a difference.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSomebody recently said to me \u201cHow\u2019s your family?\u201d\u00a0 I said \u201cWell, that\u2019s an interesting question.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ll just tell it to you like I said it to the person. \u201cYou can airbrush a Christmas photo to send out to your friends, but there ain\u2019t no airbrushing a family.\u201d\u00a0 Now I know that\u2019s terrible grammar but frankly that\u2019s good theology.\u00a0 We are a family for goodness sake.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYes, you can get a good looking picture but you know what?\u00a0 We are all in process, every last one of us in our family and yet, little by little God\u2019s at work in our lives.\u00a0 I think He is using some of our family in fact He is using all of our family in various ways to accomplish what He wants to do.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think the question for the listener is what does God want to get done through you? Who do you know?\u00a0 Who could you reach out to?\u00a0 Who as you look around within your sphere of relationship at work, in your neighborhood, maybe the families of the kids that your kids go to school with?\u00a0 Who do you know that needs help and hope for their marriage and family?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me give you a clue. It\u2019s everybody!\u00a0 It\u2019s everyone!\u00a0 These really are urgent days!\u00a0 Bob, what\u2019s happening is I feel like evil is assaulting the family.\u00a0 Christians haven\u2019t known how to push back and we\u2019ve wanted to do something but we haven\u2019t because we haven\u2019t had the weapons or the tools to know what to do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think we\u2019ve been paralyzed and now what FamilyLife has done is we\u2019ve taken the past three and a half years and we\u2019ve been producing tools that are transferable that we can put in your hands and you can make a difference in couple\u2019s lives. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You talk about people being HomeBuilders.\u00a0 What you\u2019re saying is that somebody who picks up a tool they are a HomeBuilder?\u00a0 Is that all it takes to be a HomeBuilder?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We have a little saying that we\u2019ve kind have adopted here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 \u201cGrab a tool.\u00a0 Change a home.\u00a0 Change the world.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, yes to be a HomeBuilder you don\u2019t have to graduate from seminary.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to be commissioned with any kind of service at church.\u00a0 All you have to be is available and want to make a difference in somebody\u2019s life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got various ways to do that using videos that we created, using material online that we\u2019ve created, and using this broadcast to pass on the messages of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> that\u2019s been on the air now for close to 18years. In over 3,000 different broadcasts that you can use the truth of what has been shared here and pass it on to your friends.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>People will hear you say \u201cDo you know anybody who could use help?\u201d\u00a0 They go \u201cWell, yes I do know folks who could use help but I\u2019m not sure what to tell them because\u2026\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I understand that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2026because I don\u2019t know the right answers.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am afraid they\u2019ll ask me a question I don\u2019t know the answer to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Not only that.\u00a0 We are just one step in front of the hounds ourselves.\u00a0 I mean we are still in process.\u00a0 And number three I don\u2019t have a whole lot of time!\u00a0 Life is kind of coming at me fast and there is just not much margin left.\u00a0\u00a0 So, you\u2019re saying \u201cpick up a tool\u201d and I\u2019m going, boy, I am busy and I\u2019m overwhelmed.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am not asking you to rebuild every family in town.\u00a0 I am just asking you to pick up a tool and reach out to a person.\u00a0 It may be a thirty minute commitment.\u00a0 It may be a one hour a week commitment.\u00a0 It may be that you host a video experience, a video event using the new video material that you just created, called <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tA six hour experience, high quality that can be used with five couples at a lake house over a weekend or it could be used in your church basement with twenty couples.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I would like to move it up into the sanctuary if we could.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>There is going to be a better sound system and a better projector up there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I hope so. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(more laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was moving to the sanctuary upstairs.\u00a0 Let\u2019s have a couple hundred couples upstairs or maybe some folks who are listening to this go to some mega churches and you just need to work to get it on out on the calendar.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got a brand new transformational video package. Bob, I think this is going to go all across the nation. Can I share a story with our listeners here about how we came up with this idea?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I can\u2019t stop you, can I?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You can\u2019t!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why I asked. Barbara and I went to Portland, Maine with another couple, Chairman of the board of FamilyLife. Scott and Teresa Beck.\u00a0\u00a0 As we are sitting at the Weekend to Remember\u00ae marriage getaway on Sunday over lunch we sat down with a team the lay men and women from Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 With some of the Homebuilders we have up there?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, with some of the couples who helped put the conference on and who marketed it and got the word out about it.\u00a0 They said, \u201cYou know, Dennis we love these live conferences but we know you\u2019ll never be able to take this conference to Presque Isle, Maine or Bar Harbor.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t even find Presque Isle, Maine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Go to the end of the Earth\u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Then you can see it from there?!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You can see it from right there!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTheir point was there are hundreds of cities all over Maine\u2014little communities that have churches and that could host <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em> video experience if they had a person who said, \u201cGive me that video conference.\u00a0 Give it to me and I\u2019ll bring it back to my community.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, basically they said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you give us this material in a transferable high quality package?\u00a0 Something that will really wow the audience and let us take it all over the state.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat occurred about three years ago.\u00a0 I came back and we talked about it.\u00a0 I asked you, \u201cWould you be willing to head up a project where we would invest a sizable amount of money to be able produce the finest video event on marriage and family that has ever been created.\u201d\u00a0 That may sound braggadocios but that was our goal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We weren\u2019t going to go out to one of our Weekend to Remember\u00ae marriage getaways and set up cameras and just come back with that kind of conference on video.\u00a0 Not that there is anything wrong with that but we wanted to do something that would be different than that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Especially for our sons and daughters.\u00a0 You have a couple of daughters who are married and five of our six adult children are married.\u00a0 They\u2019re watching T.V.\u00a0 They are on the internet.\u00a0 It\u2019s got to be fresh.\u00a0 It\u2019s got to communicate in their language.\u00a0 So you went to work on it and in an eighteen month period created <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a six hour video experience that is profoundly biblical but fun and entertaining and you\u2019re never quite sure what\u2019s coming at you.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a fresh look at marriage but it\u2019s a powerful package that if you invite a couple\u2014well, there was a couple who had been married twenty four-twenty five years who attended <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em> we just had here locally. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This was a special sneak preview because we should tell folks T<em>he Art of Marriage<\/em> is not ready for release yet but we did get together with some folks and did a sneak preview and got some feedback.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Had about 800 people in one room.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One of the couples that were there as you had said had been married for about twenty-five years and we didn\u2019t know that there were some very serious issues in their marriage and the wife was really wondering if there was hope left.\u00a0 She was contemplating a divorce.\u00a0 In fact she already picked out the apartment she was going to move to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But as they sat through the event there was a fresh wind of hope and there was some practical help.\u00a0 They shared with us on the evaluations that this had saved their marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 As you know Bob there were 800 people in the room.\u00a0 There were a lot of just really good marriages there who came and said, \u201cYou know what we want to do?\u00a0 I want that video package to take back to my church, to my community, to my business and I want to show it.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact I had a guy come up to me after this event.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t told you this.\u00a0 He said \u201cDennis, I worked at Disney.\u201d And he said \u201cIn Disney they have 22,000 employees there in Southern California. There is a room, a theater that seats quite a few people. I don\u2019t think that seats all 22,000.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, \u201cWhat I\u2019d like to do is talk to some of my friends who still work at Disney and I\u2019d like to see us do <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em> at the Disney headquarters.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Now here is what he said. He said, \u201cDennis, this is Disney quality material.\u00a0 Now, Bob that is a pretty stout compliment.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You are not going to hear very many Disney movies that are biblically anchored with guys quoting scripture and explaining how scripture relates to how conflict, sex, communication, roles, legacy and the purpose of marriage.\u00a0 The Art of Marriage does.\u00a0 The Art of Marriage has that message clearly imbedded in it and throughout all of it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe thing I\u2019m excited about is that it does everything that the Weekend to Remember\u00ae does but it does it in a different venue.\u00a0\u00a0 I think it is going to be hosted all over the country and in all kinds of locations.\u00a0 It is going to be really fun to hear what some folks have done with it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody is going to get a manual that goes through this and there will be projects for couples to do just like the Weekend to Remember\u00ae.\u00a0 As a result they are going to leave there having applied the same biblical blueprints people have been getting at the Weekend to Remember since 1976.\u00a0 They can have the same kind of transformational experience of seeing Jesus Christ strengthen good marriages and make them better take marriages that are in trouble and rescue them and take marriages that may be over and raise them from the dead.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 As you\u2019ve been talking about tools in the tool kit this is just one of the new tools that we have been working on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u00a0And we have about half a dozen new tools.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But this particular tool is still being built.\u00a0 In fact, if folks are saying that sounds great.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to host one of those events in our church or in our community or out at our lake house.\u00a0 Where do we get it?\u00a0 The answer is you can\u2019t yet because we have targeted Valentine\u2019s weekend 2011 as the worldwide premiere.\u00a0 That worldwide premiere is going to happen hopefully thousands of locations all across the country and all around the world.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 This morning I sent a friend in Fiji to the website theartofmarriage.com.\u00a0 It talks about The Art of Marriage.\u00a0 Go look at this.\u00a0 People can do if they want to host one of these events where do they go?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 If they come to familylifetoday.com there is a link there to the tool kit, <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em>.\u00a0 They can find out more about the event and what is available.\u00a0 They can use some clips from it online.\u00a0 They can say we\u2019d like to host this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPart of the reason we are talking about it now is if you say you are going to host one of these somewhere on February 11, 2011 you have to get it on the calendar now.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are hoping folks will talk it over with our pastor or we need to talk with the folks at this location to see if we can use this location.\u00a0 We think it would exciting if that weekend hundreds if not thousands of locations there were couples getting together saying let\u2019s go through this material.\u00a0 It\u2019s folks who have a good marriage coming for a tune up.\u00a0 It\u2019s folks who have a marriage who may be struggling and they are looking for some hope.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>The Art of Marriage<\/em> video event is really an event.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like other videos you sit down and watch.\u00a0 It really is an event that you go through together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a transformational event really because it is talking about the application of the Bible to your marriage.\u00a0 Not in a stale, dry way.\u00a0 You\u2019ll laugh.\u00a0 You\u2019ll cry.\u00a0 You will identify with the people who are on there.\u00a0 We were talking to some of the speakers at our Weekend to Remember\u00ae who have been speaking with us for a decade who share some of the most intimate stories from their lives from when their marriages came to a fork in the road a decade ago.\u00a0 They share how they made choices that set their marriage on the right path.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, in fact we have some clips up on our website familylifetoday.com.\u00a0 If you go there and click on the art of marriage link some of those stories are available so you can get a little glimpse of what is included in <em>The Art of Marriage<\/em> video event.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can also find out how you can bring one of these events to your church or your community.\u00a0 This is something that any couple can decide to host.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to talk to the pastor or the elders or the leadership of your church first.\u00a0 You can be the host couple for an art of marriage event and we\u2019ll walk you through the process so that you can be the world premiere of this on 2-11-2011.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, more information online FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 Click the link that says art of marriage.\u00a0 And find out about some of the other tools that are in the FamilyLife Today tool chest.\u00a0 That\u2019s the point we are making here.\u00a0 You can be involved in helping to strengthen marriage and families in your community.\u00a0 If we are going to see them strengthened we\u2019ve all got to pitch in and lend a hand.\u00a0 That is what we are asking listeners to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr, call for more information at 1-800-FL TODAY, 1-800-358-6329, that's 1-800 \u201cF\u201d as in Family, \u201cL\u201d as in Life, and then the word \u201cToday.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWith that we have to wrap things up today.\u00a0 I hope you and your family have a great weekend.\u00a0 I hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI hope you can join us back on Monday when Tedd and Margy Tripp are going to join us to talk about how we can press the truth of God\u2019s word into the pliable hearts of our children starting at an early age.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about that Monday.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back tomorrow for another addition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 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