With this book, I think only hardcore Christians will make it past chapter one and they would not really gain a lot about marriage. If I gave Dave Ramsey to a non-Christian I would feel pretty good that they would enjoy it, gain lots of insight, and maybe the Christian parts of it would have an impact, but it wouldn't push them away from the awesome advice. Now, if you are a Christian and reading this review you might say, "Well, Matthew, being a Christian isn't always easy, were you expecting the content to be a cakewalk?" To that I say that I never expect these courses or the content to be easy (that is why we are interested in taking them to enrich ourselves - if it was easy, we probably wouldn't bother!) However, I expect it to be accessible and relevant. Instead, this book was all about the difficulties and struggles of being Christian with a little bit about marriage and family thrown in. We have taken other courses at our church where the subject matter was on point with the reading materials providing key parts of scripture to emphasize the content (Dave Ramsey comes to mind). My wife and I decided to attend a marriage class at church and this was the accompying book. I would have rated this book higher if the subject matter was as advertised.
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