The couple did have marriage problems. But we all do at some point.
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The Blackburns moved to Indianapolis two years ago to plant a new church. They had lived for four years in South Carolina, where Davey Blackburn served as an assistant pastor at*NewSpring Church. NewSpring, which provided*The Star*with the photos of the smiling couple, now sees more than 30,000 people every Sunday.
“When you're dating and so in love, you can forget about all the conflict or the things that might annoy you. But once you get married those things become a really big deal.”
-Amanda Blackburn-
The Blackburns called their Indianapolis mission the*Resonate Church. Its message was tailored to young people. Each week thesermon videos*are posted on the church website. Topics have included relationship advice, resolving conflicts and what the bible says about sex.
In the*Oct. 27 sermon, the Blackburns spoke openly about their relationship and their struggles to mesh as a couple.
They met on a blind date. Amanda's sister was dating Davey's best friend. They went to a concert by the Christian band*Hawk Nelson. They were attending different colleges at the time. Davey was on fall break, and he hung out with Amanda the whole week. They just clicked.
To the outside world, they were the perfect couple. But they struggled, too.
"We had a really great honeymoon," Amanda said in the video of the Oct. 27 question-and-answer style sermon. "We were so in love, taking pictures. Then, literally, the next day he went to work. It was like honeymoon over."
Before the wedding, they had been dating long distance and had not really spent more than a few weeks together at a time.
"When you're dating and so in love, you can forget about all the conflict or the things that might annoy you," Amanda said. "But once you get married those things become a really big deal."
They went to counseling and learned to communicate.
In the*Oct. 20 sermon, Davey Blackburn told the congregation that Amanda took a purity pledge when she was a teen.
She was so true to that pledge that she refused to even kiss a man before she was married.
"Do you know how much that meant to me?" he said. "From that moment that I kissed her I knew there was going to be a special bond inside of God's plan for us."