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A Study on the Christian premarital Counseling of premarital Education and Counseling Programs

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2008, 10(), pp.194-221
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2008.10..194
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : March 30, 2008
  • Accepted : May 10, 2008

Oh, Yoon Sun 1

1한국성서대학교

ABSTRACT

The purpose for this study was to analyze a premarital Education and Counseling Programs for Christian premarital Counseling. Premarital counseling seeks to prevent marital problems and personal conflicts that could make life miserable, difficult, unfulfilled, and unproductive after marriage. Premarital counseling lets couples express, discuss, and realistically modify their expectations for marriage. Conflicting expectations can be seen and hopefully resolved. With the counselor’s help the couple can learn that dreams for a good marriage only become reality when there is mutual giving and consistent effort. Learning like this comes slowly, but it can help couples anticipate and sometimes avoid the disillusionment that clouds the anticipated brightness in many marriages. Premarital counseling should seek to uncover and discuss the self-centered tendencies that put strain on a marriage. The couple must be taught how to resolve differences, and they must develop both sensitivity and a willingness to accept and meet each other’s needs. This involves giving freely to one’s mate just as Christ gave to us. Christian counselors have a responsibility to show that premarital counseling really works and how it can be done. This involves helping people anticipate difficulties in marriage and family living them how to communicate and resolve problems effectively, and showing them how to build marriages that are lived in accordance with God’s plan as revealed in the Bible.

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