Someone at one of our marriage conferences once told me that you could not have a relationship without trust, and they were absolutely right. At least not a healthy one, because trust is embedded in every fiber of a relationship.
Trust allows us to experience emotional and commitment safety. It opens the door for a deeper connection and gives you the motivation to endure the hard times you will face. We are fallible and will make mistakes which inevitably break the trust between two people. There are three main pillars that make up trust: honesty, openness, and transparency.
- Honesty requires that you be true to yourself and your spouse by putting everything on the table without hiding.
- Openness requires you to share the vulnerable things that feel hard to talk about and hold the space for your spouse to share as well.
- Transparency requires that you’re in tune emotionally with what’s being said, felt, heard, and understood.
This combination is what leads to ultimate trust. This trio of traits helps ensure a trust-building process and leads to increased vulnerability, depth of connection, and long-term fulfillment. We invite you to experience with us the significance of trust in all of our key relationships. During the weekend we will be reviewing together how essential trust is in experiencing the love we have for each other, how essential trust is the understanding and maturing of our person, and how essential trust is our ability to walk together into the purposes of God.
Blessings,
Jere & Brenda Vincent
President Family Builders Ministries
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About Bill Thrall
As co-founder of Trueface in 1995, Bill’s wisdom has been penned throughout The Cure, The Ascent of a Leader, Bo’s Café, Behind The Mask, and High Trust Cultures.
Bill’s gifts and experience also shine as he helps leaders establish trust in all their key relationships and nurtures grace-based environments. CEO’s of international companies to heads of mission organizations and universities have repeatedly discovered a life-long gratitude for spending time with Bill.
Prior to joining Trueface, Bill founded and pastored the influential faith-community, Open Door Fellowship, for over 20 years. While there he developed an effective character development training program, which nurtured visionaries such as Kit Danley, founder of Neighborhood Ministries.
In his spare time, Bill can be found fishing, golfing, crafting furniture for his family in his woodshop, and cultivating fruits, herbs, and vegetables in his fertile backyard garden. Bill and his wife, Grace have three grown children, Wende married to Jim, Bill married to Charlotte, and Joy married to Joe, and nine grandchildren.
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About Trueface
Trueface equips people to experience authentic relationships with God and others.
Today’s culture is perfecting the art and science of creating masks. Behind these masks, people are dying inside. We’re here to change that.
Trueface equips people to experience the freedom of living beyond the mask. When we increase trust in our relationships, we are able to experience being more authentically known and loved by God and others.
We hope to be a bridge for hundreds of thousands to experience the peace and freedom of the original good news by trusting God and others with their whole selves.
