"Our relationship is different. We're the exception." Nobody walks down the aisle expecting it to end, yet half of Christian marriages do.
One of the best premarital preparations for singles is to learn about divorce before the wedding. It is a distinctive of Orthodox Jewish marriage, and it may explain why their divorce rate is 3%.
Pastor Steve Cioccolanti, in the third session of his study on what the Bible really says about divorce, lists 5 steps the church can take to lower the rate of divorce among Christians, and the top 5 causes of marriage breakdown. The third cause is the one Christian couples blush to discuss before the wedding.
What makes premarital counseling work? What should the church provide that a secular counselor can't? And if you remarried before you were saved, does God require you to go back to your first spouse?
Drawing on Scripture, Kenneth Hagin and John Milton's 1644 appeal to the English Parliament, Pastor Steve puts law and love in their right order: "We love people more than law."
Single, engaged or single again, watch it before you say "I do."
