How did it go?

well first I would be interested in knowing what about Proverbs freaked them out. What are they asking of you in the counceling area?

I talk to couples before mariage. we talk about all subjects that will challenge their relationship. Some of the couples actualy called off the mariage. Some were of different faiths (ex. one was Catholic one was Methodist).

What is your goal? Do you have an agenda?

Hi Michael,

I have married a few couples who do not regularly attend church, but who have come to me as a local pastor to help prepare them for marriage. I have found Gordon Cheng's little book "In the sight of God" to be a brilliant resource in this situation. It would work exceptionally well for believers, but it is great for others because Cheng covers the key issues of relationship and looks into the way God has put things together as well as the problems we face. His opening for the last session is brilliant: "All marriages end in sadness". It isn't an evangelistic tract, but it covers all the right areas to get couples talking and thinking about the big issues. You can get the book and a leaders guide from MatthiasMedia.com

Hope that is useful,

Chris

Jay Adam's "Marriage, Divorce and Re-Marriage is the best thing I've read so far on at the very least defining what these things are. He touches on many a "how to" as well in there. Highly, highly recommend that one.
Praise the Lord they even want to get counsel! Most aren't even getting married! Just living together with no plan of commitment.

can you keep us updated on how it goes(obviously keeping the confidentiality factor in mind)

Jay Adam's "Marriage, Divorce and Re-Marriage is the best thing I've read so far on at the very least defining what these things are. He touches on many a "how to" as well in there. Highly, highly recommend that one.
Praise the Lord they even want to get counsel! Most aren't even getting married! Just living together with no plan of commitment.

Can you keep us updated on how it goes (obviously keeping the confidentiality factor in mind)

How can you teach on marriage and not teach as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for her? You can't tell them how to act without setting forth the gospel, the purpose of God's word. To do anything less is robbing God of His glory and using holy things profanely.

Michael,
My advice is to proceed from Genesis--
Start wtih God as Creator in Gen. 1;
God's good design for marriage in Gen. 2;
Ask why that experience ia so rare in marriages today--what is our biggest problem?
Then point them to the problem of sin in Gen. 3--Sin separates--it separates us from God and from one another. Our problem is our focus on Self put in the place of God.
Then unfold the plan of God to deal with sin in the gospel.
This approach begins with their felt need--help to have a happy marriage and leads them to their real need--reconciliation with God through Christ.
I have used this approach with several couples with some good fruit.
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This is probably late, but we believe the best advice and approach is to immediately lead them to the very author of marriage- Jesus.

While it appears that this may look like a last minute shotgun advice session, the only lasting impact that would be made is to lead them to the XFactor of a successful marriage. Without Christ, all advice will go down the drain.

Whether they like it or not, they need to be brought to the crossroads of Christ.

Without this reality, all advice will simply go in one ear and out the other.

At least with Jesus, a hard decision will need to be made.

Decisions like "Should we even get married", "Am I marrying the right person?", "Do we really want Christ to be the center of our marriage?".

It's the very identity of Christ that will make or break a marriage.

If this wisdom is not shared, everything else is just happy-go-lucky advice that will crumble for better or for worse.

Hope the counseling went fine. We had one recently in our opus art team and it went fine. Sometimes such things seem to be important.

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