So much of ministry, as I’ve said, is pattern recognition: just seeing when they do things that work well, when they do things that don’t work well, writing down those patterns. JP: Yes I’ve seen the lives of tens of thousands of young adults. You’ve recognized that, when they can do life in community, a lot of the issues start to take care of themselves. This subject is on your heart because you’ve just spent the last decade-plus working with this age group-people in their late teens, in their 20s, even into their early 30s-singles, who are trying to figure out life and are finding that aspects of life are challenging. He and his wife Monica have been married for-what is it?īob: Fifteen years, three kids. He’s a pastor at Harris Creek Church in Waco, Texas. But Jonathan Pokluda’s joining us today JP, welcome to FamilyLife Today.īob: JP has written a book called Welcome to Adulting. Wouldn’t you say that’s true?īob: I think that is true and the “four of us”-I should introduce the fourth, because our listeners know the three of us we’re here every day. I’m guessing-I know that Dave and I have-we have all grown the most through community. You don’t really get to do adulthood on your own do you?ĭave: I think one of the most underestimated and misunderstood concepts in the Christian walk is the value of community I really do.Īnn: I think about the four of us sitting at the table. We want to talk today about how that can’t happen unless it’s happening in community. We’ve been talking this week about moving from childhood to adulthood-moving through the phases of: “When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, but when I became a mature person/a man, I gave up childish things,”-that’s what the Bible says in Stay with us.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. There are some simple, basic principles that we need to keep in mind and we’re going to talk about what those are today.
JP Pokluda says it is not as complicated as we’ve made things out to be, this idea of meeting, and marrying, and building a life together. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson I'm Bob Lepine.
What’s crazy-this is the enemy he’s so crafty-he’s made us think we’re getting better at it!īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, February 12 th. What’s happening is we’re getting married later, and we’re getting married less, and we’re less happy in marriages than we’ve ever been. I think we make it so much more difficult everybody’s looking, swiping right and swiping left. Bob: Why are fewer people getting married and more people getting married later in life than ever before? Pastor JP Pokluda says it’s because the culture has made dating and getting to know one another much more difficult.