MARRIAGE

Prepare & Enrich

Learn more about the Prepare and Enrich program and premarital counseling.

Prepare and Enrich program helps couples build communication, manage expectations, and foster mutual understanding and trust. Amid wedding planning, this program offers valuable tools that help strengthen relationship skills, ultimately setting a strong foundation for a lasting and fulfilling partnership.

Core Values in Marriage

The following are foundational principles derived from the Bible that guide and support a strong, healthy, and Christ-Centered marital relationships. These core values, when practiced, can strengthen, and sustain a marriage, creating a relationship that honors God and reflects His love. They are essential to making disciples who live and love like Jesus.

Love

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.    
(‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭4‬-‭6‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Commitment

Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate. (Mark 10:9 NIV) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. (Ephesians 5:25 ESV)

Respect

Faithfulness

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. (‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭33‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Forgiveness

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32 NIV)
Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery. (‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭13‬:‭4‬ ‭NLT‬‬)

Unity

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (‭‭Genesis‬ ‭2‬:‭24‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Communication

Service

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.
(James 1:19 NIV)
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. (‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2‬:‭3‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Trust

Prayer

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. ‭‭(Proverbs‬ ‭3‬:‭5‬-‭6‬ ‭ESV‬)‬
Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24 ESV)

Patience

Sacrifice

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.
(‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭2‬ ‭NLT‬‬)
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13 ESV)