The more marriages break up, the more pastors seek for ways to teach survival tactics, especially to engaged couples. A few years ago Dennis Kooy, minister of First Christian Church in Vale, Oregon, added some unique homework to his premarital counseling: interview someone who's been married 50 years.
"I require each bride to talk to an elderly wife and each groom to talk to an elderly husband," says ...
Cohabitation is not an abstract phenomenon written about in sociological journals; it's a reality facing pastors no matter the size or location of a church. Almost all the pastors I talk to indicate that they've been approached by cohabiting couples for a wedding. Certainly the prevalence of and the casual attitude toward cohabitation argue for a clear and consistent approach to these couples by pastors. ...
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