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How should a church talk about marriage to single people? How can it best prepare them?

Someone once said, "Forewarned is forearmed." Single adults who are considering marriage need to understand that most couples tend to prepare more for their wedding day than for their marriage. There are a lot of excellent pre-marriage courses on the market today, but we believe that churches should encourage people to go a few steps beyond pre-marriage classes. Most single adults don't fully understand that God has a mission for every marriage and that Satan has a plan to destroy every marriage and every mission. Given that, we have several suggestions for churches:

Encourage the pursuit of deeper intimacy with Christ. God intended every marriage to be the vessel through which the gospel of Christ flows into the world. But, in order for a marriage to live out God's intent, single adults must actively pursue their individual intimacy with Christ by engaging in spiritual disciplines such as reading his Word, memorizing Scripture, prayer, worship, and fasting. Most marriages fail because ...

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