Pre-marriage

The Premarital Counselling course has been born out of desire to see God- honouring marriages. At Carrubbers, we hold the marriage relationship with high regard - for no other reason than that God did. He is the Creator and the Author of marriage and we believe that since he designed us, he knows us best and that we should base our marriages firmly on Him.

You don't have to look very far these days to see the devastation and havoc which has been wreaked upon the institution of marriage. Broken families, ruined lives, lonely children, angry partners, illicit affairs, are all part of the consequences of failed and failing marriages. When God created man and woman and performed the first wedding in the paradise of the Garden of Eden, this is certainly not the way He intended it to be. But as with all things which God creates good, Satan attempts to destroy and pervert. Marriage is not different.

The Bible tells us that one of the very spectacular purposes of the marriage union is the reflection of the relationship between Christ and His bride, the Church (Eph 5:22-33). If this is so, then we should only expect to see the enemies of God mounting a concerted and applied effort to distort and demolish the effectiveness and purity of the marriage union.

This course has been designed with that reality in mind. We understand the pressures and the temptations that abound all around us. We understand the difficulty of remaining faithful to the intended purpose of God in marriage in the face of these obstacles. However, we believe in a God who is able to give strength (Ephesians 6:10) and ability (2 Corinthians 3:5) in the midst of it all. God wants to glorify Himself in your marriage as much as He does in your life (1 Corinthians 6:19).