Lysa TerKeurst sat down with her husband, Chaz Adams, Wednesday night for a “behind the scenes conversation” about their relationship. In the livestream, the couple revealed how they met, how they have built trust in their relationship, and that they continue to navigate past griefs even in the mist of their “redemption story.”
“I am so grateful to have found you, and I know you’re grateful to have found me,” TerKeurst told Adams. “And there are still moments that, because the previous relationship that you had in marriage and the previous relationship I had in marriage, because those didn’t work out and they ended in such hard ways, there are still ramifications of grief that happened.”
“But I love the fact that you and I are able to talk about those things as well. And I think conversation’s really important,” she continued. “I think more relationships die, not because you attempt to have hard conversations, but because there are conversations that are desperately needed but just never had.”
Lysa TerKeurst and Chaz Adams Discuss Their ‘Redemption Story’
Lysa TerKeurst is the president and chief visionary officer of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the author of several New York Times bestsellers. Throughout Wednesday’s conversation, she related her and her husband’s story to concepts in her new book, “I Want to Trust You, but I Don’t: Moving Forward When You’re Skeptical of Others, Afraid of What God Will Allow, and Doubtful of Your Own Discernment.”
At the end of the stream, TerKeurst announced that people can buy a copy of the book and get one free for as long as supplies last starting then until the book is published on Oct. 8.
TerKeurst also recently had a conversation about trust with Dr. Ed Stetzer and Daniel Yang on “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast.” That interview will be released Oct. 9.
“We’ve been together for a long time and lots of people have asked so many questions,” said TerKeurst as her conversation with Adams began. “I am excited we’re going to get to tell a little bit of our story tonight.”
Navigating Past Grief and Building Trust
Part of TerKeurst and Adams’ story is how they have developed a new relationship with each other given the pain of their pasts. In 2017, TerKeurst announced that after 25 years of marriage, she was getting divorced because of her then-husband’s infidelity.
However, a year later, the couple was still together. In December 2018, the two renewed their vows, celebrating the restoration of their union. Sadly, on Jan. 1, 2022, TerKeurst revealed that she was ending her marriage to Art TerKeurst for good, as he had continued to be unfaithful.
In June 2023, TerKeurst shared that she had a new love interest, and in January of this year, she and Adams married in a romantic ceremony in the French Alps.
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Meeting Each Other: A Chance Encounter on a Dating App
By far the most asked question Adams and TerKeurst receive is how they met—which was on a dating app. “I don’t particularly love our story being that we met on a dating app because I always said I will never go on dating apps,” said TerKeurst. However, she picked one she believed was “pretty safe,” and she made sure to involve her girlfriends throughout the dating process.
