This book covers three the fundamental concerns that each married couple has: (1) Married And How To Stay That Way will help you determine from Scripture the practical ways to resolve your conflicts and stop them from reoccurring in your relationship. (2) Married And How To Stay That Way will help you understand what the first steps should be to build a solid foundation for your marriage. (3) Married And How To Stay That Way will also give you a systematic plan for building the relationship you are seeking. This book is written in a counseling style with practical encouragement and group discussion questions at the end of each chapter. If you are looking for the "How To" from a Biblical perspective, this is the book for you.
During the past twenty-one years Steve Carr has been the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel in Arroyo Grande, California. Before coming to his present ministry, he spent an additional eight years teaching Bible studies with Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California under the ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith. As a pastor, Steve has had the experience and opportunity to use the sure Word of God and its application to help many people experience victorious Christian living.
Throughout his ministry, Steve has counseled many couples who are in the midst of crisis and who are looking for solutions and answers to their problems. The counsel he gives does not come from the theories of untried ideas, but from many years of real-life counseling situations and from seeing what actually works in the lives of his counselees. In the years Steve has spent studying the Scriptures, combined with the experience of counseling, he is able to help couples come to an understanding of their problems and apply the biblical solutions that result in restoration and reconciliation.
Steve writes the quarterly marriage publication, Covenant Keepers, which has an international circulation of over a thousand churches with translation in Spanish, Russian, Tamil (an Indian dialect), and the Romanian language. Each week he receives phone calls and letters of appreciation from couples around the country describing how they have given their lives to Christ or have seen their marriages reconciled. In addition, many churches use this publication for marriage ministries within their congregations.
He believes that the Word of God has the complete and all-sufficient solutions to the problems Christian couples are facing today. Because of the many requests from couples for more comprehensive instruction in solving marital problems, he has authored the book, Married And How To Stay That Way, based solely on God's Word.
Steve and his wife, Susan, have been married for over twenty-six years and have raised two sons.
