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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

What Part Does A Church Play In How To Save Your Marriage?

By Will Scott


Lots of the faiths around the world view marriage as a holy institution that is the bedrock of the family. It is extremely important in these faiths to make an effort possible to save a marriage when it looks to be in trouble.

The question that usually arises, though, is how to save your marriage.

Even the very best of marriages will have their bad moments and nowadays there does seem to be more divorce than there once was many years back. The roles of males and females have changed considerably over the years.

Financial pressures nowadays are much more intense and youngsters have more behavior issues than in the past. These all put pressure onto a marriage and some will struggle to get through it.

So what do you do if your marriage is in jeopardy?

The church is one good starting place if your marriage needs aid, after all the church does value the sanctity of marriage extremely highly.

Sure there are family therapists, marriage counselors or clinical psychologists you can visit but many of these will take on an individualistic approach to the therapy. A pastor or church advisor on the other hand will take a rather more wholistic approach which should have a much better likelihood of success.

Is there an advantage to seeing a pastoral counselor rather than a secular specialist?

A secular specialist has been educated in their field but their studies is just about only on treating individuals. Even those consultants who specialize in marriage and family care have only had maybe a class or elective in how to deal with couple's care. Because of their shortage of education for a family as a whole this approach is not invariably the best.

On the other hand, a pastoral advisor is educated with the aim of helping couple's work through their issues and brings them closer together. A priest has the assumption that once the vows of marriage are taken the union should be for all time with the exception of a violent relationship.

Many pastoral counselors have experienced formal education for counselling and even people who do not have a formalised degree will take some instruction and classes on this topic.

If you don't attend church on a regular basis then you may not have a pastor already willing to help. Some churches may require membership before it's possible to approach the preacher for such help.




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