With Dave and Ashley Willis

With Dave and Ashley Willis


What’s “bare marriage” all about? We sat down with standard podcasters Dave and Ashley Willis to search out out, and we realized an vital message about God’s design for intercourse and the way porn counterfeits it.  

God Designed Marriage to be Bare

“The Bare Marriage” is a provocative title for a podcast! However the motive they selected it’s as a result of it’s biblical. Dave and Ashley defined:

“We name it The Bare Marriage as a result of it’s based mostly on the primary married couple, Adam and Eve and again in Genesis 2. It talks about how God created them, they usually had been bare and unashamed, they usually had been bare bodily, however they had been additionally bare, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. They weren’t holding any secrets and techniques from one another. They’d that vulnerability.”

Since that point, {couples} have struggled to recapture that stage of bodily, emotional, and religious intimacy. However that’s what Dave and Ashley’s podcast goals to assist folks do.

“We all know that God created us to have that type of reference to Him and with one another, that nakedness. The Bare Marriage is absolutely reclaiming that reclaiming God’s design for marriage, the place we don’t have secrets and techniques from one another, the place we’re completely bare in each means, as a result of we consider that that’s what God desires us to be with him, clearly, but in addition as married folks. He desires that for husbands and wives.”

Bare Marriage Means Authenticity

This sort of whole-person nakedness actually means authenticity. And since Adam and Eve, people have struggled to reside authentically with each other.

“I feel all people needs that I feel God places in our hearts a need for that type of vulnerability, and to know and be absolutely identified by somebody the best way that God is aware of and absolutely is aware of us. However all of us are frightened of it, too, as a result of it requires vulnerability, and it requires displaying the elements of ourselves that aren’t as enticing not solely bodily, however after we’re bearing our soul to anyone, and sharing our struggles, our secrets and techniques, our previous, and our insecurities.”

What number of {couples} lengthy for this type of authenticity in marriage however battle to search out it? Dave and Ashley emphasize that it’s price striving for as a result of true intimacy means discovering security with one other particular person.

“Intimacy is much more than simply intercourse, though that that bodily intimacy is a superb a part of it. However it’s a lot greater than that. I imply it’s with the ability to simply absolutely really feel related and trusted and protected with somebody. And I consider that’s nonetheless God’s need for each marriage.”

When {couples} reside in genuine intimacy, they’ll really expertise the enjoyment of intercourse as God supposed it: a present.

“It’s a reward supposed for marriage, and he’s created a lot freedom for married {couples} to take pleasure in you. We simply say it is best to, you already know, paint the phrase freedom over your headboard, as a result of God, has created a lot freedom for married {couples}. Your marriage mattress ought to be the most secure place on earth for you each. Not a spot to take advantage of one another or stress one another however a spot to completely know one another and be identified and have a good time that pleasurable reward that God created.”

Porn Counterfeits Bare Marriage

Sadly, many Christian {couples} don’t expertise the pleasurable reward as God supposed it. Dave and Ashley clarify, “Our tradition is type of giving us numerous counterfeit messages which might be inflicting us to accept one thing far lower than that.”

Certainly one of these counterfeit messages is porn. Pornography tries to mimic the great thing about a unadorned marriage—and it fails miserably. That’s as a result of it’s a lie of the Enemy.

“Devil desires to maintain us at midnight. He desires us to maintain on believing the lie that porn is innocent since we’re not bringing one other particular person in bodily. So you already know, how are we hurting anyone? And actually, you already know it’s simply one thing. He desires us to consider all these lies.”

You’ll be able to hear extra, together with Dave and Ashley’s personal highly effective story of how their marriage was saved from porn. Click on right here to take heed to the podcast.



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