Bob Reccord - The Marriage Tune-Up

Most of us never question that our vehicles need regular tune-ups, and that to function well, a yearly physical will help to keep us in optimal health. Bob Reccord believes that a yearly “tune-up” for your marriage will keep your marriage fresh and new too. Bob Reccord offers these questions to take your marriage “ Beneath the Surface.”

Bob Reccord and Promise Keepers

Two sharp looking black men in their mid twenties came forward and were standing together when Reccord approached them on the arena floor at the invitation. One put his arm around the other, pulled Reccord to their side, and said, “My brother came tonight related to me physically, but now that he has come to accept Christ we will leave here bound in our heart spiritually. I can’t thank you enough for making the gospel so clear!!”

Bob Reccord and Promise Keepers

Hearing Reccord vulnerably share how work got in the way of his marriage relationship in his late twenties, and how he had received a “wake up call”, the Promise Keeper attendee said it was as though God was screaming a message of love to him that it wasn’t too late. That night, realizing that he needed to get spiritual things in order for his marriage to work out, he accepted Jesus Christ and committed to go home a different man.

Bob Reccord and Promise Keepers

In Des Moines, a young man ran up to Reccord as he came off the stage to be among the men that were making decisions. But, he wasn’t totally sure why he was there. That afternoon he had been in his home in Milwaukee sitting on the couch. Hearing of the Promise Keepers rally in Des Moines he said something “compelled him to get up and go.” Not understanding why, he traveled without stopping, arriving just in time to come into the gospel message that night. He shared with me that his wife had told him during vacation the previous week that the decisions he made in the next couple of weeks would determine whether she would stay or leave.

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A man in his thirties came forward with his dad. Both were in tears. The son had been praying for his dad for years, but instead of seeing things get better, they had gotten worse. Just a few weeks prior to the PK rally he had watched, stunned, as his dad walked away from his wife of 46 years—and the son’s mother—to “live his own life.” But on that night, he learned that the disease of sin is what causes us to have “I” problems—and leads to charting our own course, doing our own thing and living my own life. He had tried that, in spades, and had come away empty. That night son and dad came forward together, with the dad broken and pleading for Christ to come into his life and give him a brand new beginning. As the night drew to a close, his son was overheard to say, “You just don’t know the miracle this is! I had almost come to think there was no hope for my