I attended 2 sessions today
The first dealt with premarital counseling. Jason Barrie had a lot of good, gospel centered advice. He spoke specifically about the need to have a right view of God, a right view of self, and a right view of others. Here were some choice quotes.
1) if you are willing to sacrifice your fiances purity before marriage, you will be willing to do the same thing afterward.
2) Everyone knows what the church is against, no one knows what we are for.
3) (regarding premarital relations) there is no other area in my life where I want to see how close I can get to sin without doing it. FLEE FROM SIN!
4) self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together-Bonhoeffer
5)be a sermon in shoes.
The second session dealt with marital conflict and was given by Aaron Sironi and Gary Friesen of Peacemaker Ministries. It was also deeply grounded in the gospel. They provided a good model for confession and forgiveness that I am not going to go into in great depth.
More tomorrow.
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