Your Wife Is Not Your Momma

Boone (Breaking Through), a nationally recognized pastor and speaker at Promise Keeper rallies, paints an engaging portrait of God's master plan for marriage relationships. The message is simple and, although directed at husbands, is for everyone, married couples, singles and divorcees. Foremost, we need to know who we are in God, and from that we can conclude who we are to be in our marriage: ""When you become a husband, your calling is to represent Christ, and your wife's calling to represent the church.'' If this is the premise for a healthy and spirit-filled union between God and humanity, the author contends, then any outside factor that is not a part of God's master design is unacceptable. No physical marriage is immune to conflict, trials and temptations. Hence, Boone encourages husbands to stay faithful to God's teachings and examples. He calls marriage ""your most important training program for the next stage of life.'' Boone urges husbands to love their wives unconditionally--to love her beyond her faults, to develop a strong prayer life together, to honor and respect their parents and to seek God's vision for their home. Drawing on flavorful testimonies, Bible references and prayers, Boone encourages and challenges readers to strengthen their godly marriages. (Mar.)