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HUSBANDS
Bill Hybels is the Pastor of the largest church in America,
Willow Creek Community Church, just outside of Chicago, Illinois. His ministry
began as an outreach from another church to teenagers during the early 70's.
They called the youth ministry Son City. He and his wife Lynne recount the
story of their explosive church growth in their book Rediscovering church. It
also talks about the stress it caused on their marriage. Lynne, Bill's wife, is
very forthright when she writes:
"In my mind I am walking again along the quiet,
tree-lined streets from the church to the tiny home where we had just begun our
married life in May 1974. I am sitting at the round kitchen table with the red
tablecloth. Another lonely meal. Another empty evening. An hour earlier I had
begged Bill to stay home. He had looked at me in disbelief. "Kids are
dying and going to hell, and you want me to stay home and hold your hand?"
The words echo in my mind, and I hear them over and over in different forms:
Don't bother me, Lynne. How can you demand that, Lynne? Six months into
marriage, I am convinced I have made a horrible mistake. I love the man I
married. I love Son City. But I hate our marriage. I hate the pain of
disappointment. I hate mourning the death of so many dreams. And I hate the
loneliness."
--Hybels, p. 44 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson
Ephes. 5:25 NASB "Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her;"
For more information on Rediscovering Church, go to
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0310219272/fm082-20
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HUSBANDS
Few people have the spiritual stature of Billy Graham. His
passion for souls and work to spread the gospel endears him to Christians. His
kind spirit and gentle demeanor endears him to the world. But Graham would be
the first to admit that he's a sinner like the rest of us.
In his autobiography, Just As I Am, Graham doesn't hide his
faults or gloss over his mistakes. For instance, there was the time Ruth, his
wife, pleaded with him to cancel his speaking engagement in Mobile, Alabama and
stay home with her because she was having labor pains. Graham told her she
wasn't in labor and left to go to work.
That evening, their daughter "Gigi" was born.
—Just As I Am, 97 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson
Ephes. 5:25 NASB "Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her;"
For more information on Just As I Am, go to
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060633921/fm082-20
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