Death, Drugs, AND Church with Jeff & Shannon Bryant

Know what it is like to live with a smile masking pain and hurt
so deep there aren’t enough drugs to cover it up? Today, Death,
Drugs, AND Church with Jeff & Shannon Bryant.


It is hard to imagine this today, but there was a time when the
selection of a marriage partner began with the assumption you
would choose someone from your family's own ethnic identity and
religious affiliation. This wasn't a problem for those whose
lives were completely surrounded by only such people anyway. So
Dutch married Dutch. Scots married Scots. Mexicans married
Mexicans. Chinese married Chinese.


Notice I started with national identities because you know it
gets messier when we add religion into it. Surely the nice
Scottish Lass raised in the Church of Scotland wouldn't want to
marry a Roman Catholic Scot, of all things, would she? If this
were a discussion group, all of you would be ready with stories
of your own. You know someone whose parents were horrified when
he married a Russian girl and at the wedding… dot dot dot. These
are stories that include way too much relational pain,
generational conflict, historical changes, and cultural
metamorphosis. They are hard to understand, more challenging to
live, and often produce irreconcilable damage to children who
find it all just stupid.


So let's cut beneath all of those external cultural, national and
religious labels and dive right into the home. Here we have a
happily married couple with three children. Issues arise as they
always do in life, some more significant than others. How does
the couple navigate these challenges as they turn to their
important fundamental values? She thinks Church would help if
they could go together as a family. He's not surprised because
she's always been a bit more spiritual than he was. "Go ahead,
Honey, take the kids."


"But I'd like you to come with us." she implores. To say the
least, he isn't tempted. 


Years go by with the script remaining the same. He misses that
the issue isn't about Church at all, really. His wife longs for
faith to play a part in their marriage, their family, their
decisions. The bickering between the two of them becomes more
commonplace. The once passionate love affair turns into an
endurance race, finding ways to avoid the growing gap between
them. Now what?


Let’s find out. Welcome, Orange County Entrepreneur Jeff Bryants
to Church Hurts And.  


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