Why Things That Don't Matter, Matter Deeply With Charlie & Andi Ashworth | Ep. 617

Awesome Marriage Podcast

It often feels like the world around us is too broken. Where would you even start if you wanted to try and fix it? On the podcast today, Charlie and Andi Ashworth answer this question, and thankfully their answer is much simpler and more doable than it might seem.

The Ashworths have spent decades sharing their creative gifts and encouraging others to do the same, and in today’s episode they artfully equip you to take small steps toward creativity, community, and reflecting the light of God’s love, right where you are.

Don’t miss this bonus episode! We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.

Episode highlights include:

• How should Christians engage with culture?

• A call for culture making - and how simple it is to actually do it

• Why the small things matter - and how to use them for good in your life

• Hope for becoming the remedy to the loneliness epidemic

• How to balance the desire for creativity and the need to get things done

• Battling the dis-integration of “mundane” versus doing things we like

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!

QUOTES

• “We make less and less meaning of everything now, because it’s happening so fast and we’re receiving so much information.” - Charlie Ashworth

• “There’s no small people; there’s no small things. Everything matters.” - Charlie Ashworth

• “We don’t know the stories that will continue after we do.” - Andi Ashworth

• “If all of life matters to God, then all of life matters to us.” - Andi Ashworth

• “We want a formula … but it is a process.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling

• “Based on your faith in Christ, what kind of culture are you making? Are you contributing good? Or are you contributing negativity?” - Charlie Ashworth

• “It’s antithetical to the word of God and to creation itself to think that we as people of God are somehow standing outside of it. It actually creates an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality that is so unhealthy.” - Charlie Ashworth

• “Start with where you're at: You're actually getting up and making culture every day.” - Andi Ashworth

• “As an artist, maturity looks like a seamless integration of a diversity of creativity over time.” - Charlie Peacock

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Charlie and Andi’s book, Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt

• Find more from the Ashworths on their website: https://thewriterthehusband.com/

• Andy Crouch’s book Culture Making

• Learn 7 reasons why your sex life may not be where you want it to be, and how to get it there! Sign up here for the 9 Ways to Improve Your Sex Life Webinar