Beloved Unbeliever: Loving Your Husband into the Faith [Paperback]

Jo Berry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 3, 1981

Discover positive ways to approach the problem of being unequally yoked. Now there's help, truly godly help! Using the scriptural framework of love, Beloved Unbeliever shows how to love your husband into the faith. Jo Berry interviewed dozens of women who are married to unbelievers. They shared the greatest difficulties they encounter and practical ways to handle problems. You'll learn: - How to be a suitable helper - How to deal with hurts, heartaches, and hindrances - How to shoulder spiritual responsibility -- In addition, you'll find workshop questions on each chapter, so you can follow up on the chapter with individual or group study. Beloved Unbeliever will reassure you: happiness is possible in an unequally yoked situation.

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Discover positive ways to approach the problem of being unequally yoked. Now there's help, truly godly help! Using the scriptural framework of love, Beloved Unbeliever shows how to love your husband into the faith. Jo Berry interviewed dozens of women who are married to unbelievers. They shared the greatest difficulties they encounter and practical ways to handle problems. You'll learn: - How to be a suitable helper - How to deal with hurts, heartaches, and hindrances - How to shoulder spiritual responsibility -- In addition, you'll find workshop questions on each chapter, so you can follow up on the chapter with individual or group study. Beloved Unbeliever will reassure you: happiness is possible in an unequally yoked situation.

About the Author

The late Jo Berry was a popular speaker and seminar leader. Her books include How to Live with an Unbeliever, Making Your Life a Ministry, and Managing Your Life and Time.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; 1st edition (July 3, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310426219
• ISBN-13: 978-0310426219
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Changed My Marriage!, January 21, 2000

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Amy (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beloved Unbeliever: Loving Your Husband into the Faith (Paperback)

I came on-line to search for this book because I fell in love with it 7 years ago and wanted to get it for a friend. How thrilled I am to be able to right a review about a book that has meant so much to me. This is one of the BEST books I have EVER read--and I don't say that lightly! It totally changed my outlook on my marriage and helps me stay focused on what God has promised and on what I can be doing to improve my marriage. And because this book has been such a help to me, my husband has also benefitted. It's written for the woman who believes in God, but whose husband does not---and offers PRACTICAL, BIBLICAL help in handling the difficulties that accompany such a marriage: how to raise children, communication breakdowns, divorce, arguments, friendships, and much, much more! It is also a FANTASTIC book for group study--exercises are included in the book. It is an especially good resource if you're not very familiar with the bible. Jo Berry does a GREAT job directing you to applicable scripture and it's not overwhelming or confusing. And because my marriage continues to change, the type of help I need continues to change. I've referred to the book many times over the past 7 years. It will be WORTH EVERY PENNY!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The right perspective, August 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Beloved Unbeliever: Loving Your Husband into the Faith (Paperback)

Ms. Berry has written a no-nonsense book about what a christian wife is regardless of whether she is married to a christian or not.

I appreciate her honesty in writing about women who's husbands came to God, and those who did not. She does not provide a "plan" to help your husband build a relationship with God; but rather, she shows a wife how to maintain her relationship with God and her husband in virtual harmony.

I bought 7 copies of this book and gave them to women who are married to non-believers (as I am), their relationship with God and their husbands has been transformed. The key thing is to apply the principals, which are biblical, and God will bless the effort.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An honest look at the unequally yoked marriage, December 3, 2000

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Amanda Smith - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beloved Unbeliever: Loving Your Husband into the Faith (Paperback)

I wish that I had read this book before I married and before I tried to manipulate my husband to attend church, pray with me, etc. There is one small part of this book that I disagree with, however. On pages 40 and 41, Ms. Berry states that, "...it is impossible to communicate spirtual truth to an unspiritual person," and reminds the saved spouse that nothing she can say will save her husband. I agree but my husband wants to know what I believe and why. We do talk about spiritual matters because he (sweetly) says, "they are important to you." There is a time to be silent but I think that there also times to discuss Christian issues that are currently relevant in our daily lives.