Stretch Team — INVEST Marriage

How it works

No marriage thrives in isolation. Your Stretch Team is four people, in four directions. Most couples can name one or two immediately and go blank on the rest. That blank is the useful part.

“Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.”
Proverbs 11:14 (ESV)

The four directions

MENTORWho stretches you to grow? Someone further along, like Paul.

MENTEEWho are you pouring into? Someone coming behind you, like Timothy.

FRIENDWho grows alongside you and tells you the truth, like Jonathan?

ENCOURAGERWho truly believes in you, like Barnabas?

Name yours

Stretching up — a mentor (like Paul)

Stretching down — someone we pour into (like Timothy)

Stretching out — a peer / truth-teller (like Jonathan)

Stretching within — an encourager (like Barnabas)

One person we'll actually reach out to this month

The four roles here are the same four the Seven Igniters roadmap uses, on purpose. A person who is stretching you in your work is usually the same person who can speak into your marriage.

Keeping it alive

A name on a page is not a relationship. One of these four should hear from you this month.