Sexual scandal. Marital infidelity. It’s what inundates our news feeds in 2016, especially — and unfortunately — this election season.

But one celebrity couple is shining a light into the darkness. It’s not only a welcome light, but a far-reaching one. On the latest season of their HGTV reality show Fixer Upper, 25 million viewers witnessed their public example of love and faithfulness.

Chip and Joanna Gaines, the house-flippers turned TV stars from Waco, Texas, were interviewed by I Am Second in a video released Tuesday.

You don’t have to hear them say that they adore each other to believe it. In the I Am Second video, other interviews and on the TV show itself, the Gaines’s mutual affection is evident.

Settling into I Am Second’s iconic white chairs, Chip and Joanna share about their individual quirks, strengths and struggles, and how they are polar opposites. But it’s through those differences that they strengthen each other’s shared faith — a faith in Jesus Christ.

Growing in Faith Through Each Other’s Differences

“God had a funny way of bringing me Chip,” Joanna explained, “to almost have this reality of what it’s like to follow Christ, which is [that] a lot of the things are going to push you to a place of discomfort, a lot of things are going to push you to a place of freaking out.”

Joanna said she’s the one who likes comfort and predictability. Chip described her as a “wallflower” who has “blossomed” throughout their relationship and marriage. While Chip has helped Joanna climb out of her shell, most importantly, he’s helped her pursue her full potential.

“My walk with God when I was little and all the way up until, like, my 20’s was always, ‘if you play by the rules you’ll be blessed,'” Joanna said. “But then I met Chip, and I feel like now, it’s when you take a step out in faith, when it makes absolutely no sense — I think that’s where the greater reward is. There’s no telling where that will take you.”

But just as Chip’s personality has taught Joanna more about stepping out and faith, Joanna has taught Chip about aspects of God’s character as well. He says she is “the purest, most stable person” he’s ever met.

“I have learned so much about order and structure and processes through my wife, and God is all of those things to me now,” Chip said. He said he appreciates Joanna for seeing who he really is:

I feel like she knows me in a way that has caused me to stop acting. I feel like I’ve really been an actor, I’ve been a character my whole life. I’ve always tried to prove something to someone … When I caught her, I finally felt content for the first time in my life. I finally felt like I could be exactly who I was.

The World Needs More Couples Like Chip and Joanna

Our culture is obsessed with fairy tale love, but the public narrative rarely extends beyond what is popularly deemed the happy ending — the wedding day, or perhaps more realistically, the hook-up. Post-honeymoon phase stories are rare, unless they’re salacious tales of marital failure.

Chip and Joanna have been married for 13 years, have four young children, own multiple successful businesses together — and before hitting their big break with HGTV, they were broke, Joanna says.

They weren’t a couple born in the limelight fame and fortune like so many of the popular celebrity couples today, and they don’t seem to be caving under its pressure, either. The Gaineses set a real-life example of real-life people, committed to faith and committed to each other. They’re the kind of example our nation, and our world, needs more of.

Thank you, Chip and Joanna, for being a breath of fresh air.

Watch their full interview with I Am Second: