The Power of Twogether

Life Lessons Learned (LLL)
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just like this "one-liner" or as some call them "sentence sermons", our plan is to as often as possible, help married couples gain a better understanding of what it is like to minister "twogether". I know that this word is spelled wrong, it was done on purpose and intended to just be, a play on words. (Who knows this might wind up in a dictionary someday?)

The truth is I stole it from the ministry that we are a part of called, 2equal1 (2=1)International, (www.2equal1.com) Just about everything will be that is put in this blog, has been someone else’s idea first. We will give credit, whenever we know who it was that said it, but as a rule they probably weren't their original thoughts either. It not intentional when we don't give credit, it's just that we don't know where we got it from.

On my birthday years ago, I (Jim) got thousands of these one-liners as presents from friends all over the world. It has been a present that has kept on giving, as you will see if you follow this blog on a regular basis.

Our goal is to encourage married couples, to not work separately from each other, when God has put a call on their lives to work “twogether”. The synergism created allows the two, not to just do double what one could do, but exponentially do many times more than they could accomplish alone.

This is one of those lessons, as Ralph so stated, that has had to be lived out to gain a better understanding of as a couple. God’s intent all along, was for us to work “twogether” in unity in ministry and life in general. Not compete but to complete each other.

We did the separate thing for many years, and one day a guy walked up to me (Jim) and said, I know you’re in marriage ministry, but I never seen you with your wife. That convicted me and we committed to represent what we were teaching, and that was we were to be a good example, of what a "One-Flesh" couple looks like.

To tell you the truth, after that incident, we had more opportunities to minister to couples then we had had for many years before that, because they would approach us together, and seek our help, because we are seen together most everywhere we went. Are you like we were? We arrived at church let’s say as a couple, I went off my way, Kathy went hers and when church was over we were back together again. This was not a good example of a “One-Flesh Team”. Don’t get us wrong we sat in service together, but after that went our separate ways, busy for the Lord.

This was a "Life Lesson Learned", that we have lived out and now understand a lot better.

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