Should Christian churches require extensive counseling before marrying a couple? Are they successful?
Question by don1862: Should Christian churches require extensive counseling before marrying a couple? Are they successful?
One tragedy I see among Evangelical Christians is that our divorce rate is not much different than the general population, sometimes even worse. I know we need to be concerned and doing something about it. One positive thing I have noticed is that some large Evangelical churches are starting to require more extensive marriage preparation classes, Bible studies about the roles of husbands and wives in marriage, compatability testing, counseling etc. to reduce divorce in the church. I realize that all of us, Christians included, are sinners, and divorce will probably never be eliminated this side of Heaven. But I am pleased some churches are seriously trying to reduce it. The Bible tells us that God hates divorce. One church where I was a member before moving accross the country had a huge congregation of young singles of marrying age. Consequently, they had a lot of marriages, and required extensive Bible study and training before marrying in that church. Do you think this is an effective way to reduce divorce among Christians?
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Answer by Salacious Crumb
are these classes led by the pastor who had the 8 year gay prostitue and cocaine habit, or the pedophile priests?
hoping other mortals can put springs on your buggy and relying on them as your source of religion = exactly the thing that pisses god off the most
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Religious teachings are not much different than moral guidelines that non-religious people try to follow themselves….trouble is, we are human and no matter what rules we honestly try to follow, there are still those who simply can’t or won’t put a marriage ahead of their own base wants.
Christians are not really failing more than non-believers simply because God is thrown into the mix…And bible studies won’t do much other than impose (perhaps) a higher level of guilt.
Consequences other than the hurt and disappointment of our spouses mean little, if those feelings aren’t enough, nothing is.
Am with Salacious, frankly the idea of a Catholic priest who hasnt had to live with anybody since he left the seminary is in no position to advise me on how to share my life with someone.
The divorce rate among Christians as a whole is not as bad as Evangelical.
The best way to reduce the divorce rate among Evangelicals is to change how they think so that they are no longer Evangelical.
it is also an effective way but still it is not successful as the person who gives counselling himself is the violator of marriage.until there is a change in the members of the congregation even Jesus can’t help to stop divorce in churches.all christians must surrender to god read the bible and pray then only yu can expect some drop rate in divorce otherwise it will increase soon to 100%.