According to Vincent Funaro of the Christian Post. Rick Warren made an appearance on ABC's "The View" and commented:
"Mastercard saved my marriage. We were making $800 a month [years ago], and my counseling bill was $100 a week and I racked up $1500 on a bill, and I should say Marriage Priceless,"
"When people say, I don't have the money to afford counseling, I say well how much is your happiness worth, I would pay a million bucks for what I've got today [with my wife]. This is my best friend,"
Is he joking or not bout the MasterCard comment?
"A great marriage is really the union of two great forgivers."
Remove the adjectives. We are talking about marriage.
WHAT is marriage the "union" of?
Rick essentially declares that marriage is the union of two forgivers. Funny, his definition of a marriage... (even with the adjective of "great" added) is lacking some real definition of marriage. Maybe you just have to look at it in context. HE is talking about earning to forgive.... making the point that forgiveness in marriage is important... right? Well, brothers and sisters with good relationships forgive one another. Friends forgive. Employers forgive employees and the other way around .... forgiveness helps all relationships. A real definition of marriage is not simply the union of "two forgivers. The union of marriage is that of a man and a woman who love one another, not simply two great forgivers." The union of marriage is man and woman.... and ideally they have love for one another.
Besides, it's important to note that great forgivers do not come about naturally. Forgiving others can be a very difficult thing to do. In fact, few of us are even very good at it. However, the greatest forgiver of all is not you or me. The greatest forgiver is God and he has ordained the complete forgiveness of our sins against God and against one another through Jesus Christ. It is in Christ that we learn how to forgive... but Rick makes not mention of this.
On another note, "how much is your happiness worth?"
Well, Rick says he would pay a million bucks.
Maybe this is just a colloquial comment...( a figure of speech?) After talking about is own going into debt for marital counselling Rick uses this concept to express his love for his wife, but the message is not that money cannot buy you happiness. No. It is quite the opposite. Apparently it can. Rick praises the use of his MasterCard in helping hims gain this happiness in his marriage (no matter the cost.) What is he telling people? Why? And most importantly, what does he leave out?
Christian people know better. Is it, or is it not MasterCard that saved Ricks marriage?
Will just "any" mental health counsel out there in the world about your marriage help you and give you the fantastic relationship it helped Rick have?
It is sooooooooooooo strange that a Christian "pastor" would neglect to talk real and forthright about the very things of God. Strange too is that he would publicly give credit to MasterCard instead of God, while at the same time insist that God told him prophetically that he and Kay would marry.
In Rick Warren's new unauthorized biography, we learn that Kay and Rick were virtual strangers who did not love each other when they married. Rick says God clearly told him that Kay was who he would marry, even though he didn't love her and she was in love with his best friend. Apparently, we are to believe that theirs was a match made in heaven.... in turmoil from the beginning...
but we can all rest assured it's all great now because it has been fixed by good marital (mental health) counselling, thanks be to MasterCard.
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