My fiance is completely against it as am I, we were just told it was something to do before we could get married by the one church we liked. We ended up going to another church roughly a few days after they had mentioned this. We are both very against any legalistic, corporate type churches
Sounds like you both know already that, yes, it is a waste of time.
I see it more as the church trying to suck you in to becoming members by forcing a legalistic down time for marriage. This way when you do leave, or they do something dumb, you're more inclined to accept it and move on, over challenging their actions
Perhaps that is an accurate depiction of that particular church. But even if so, it doesn’t negate the benefits of a good premarital counseling track.
Some people don’t know how to properly cook a steak, but that doesn’t mean that steak in general is bad.
Good call. I think I was more snarky than necessary because we attend a local church that is a little more liberal leaning than our previous one. It's nothing excessive, just that leadership goes a little too far in extending grace, and isn't quite cautious enough in preventing (I don't quite have the word for that happy-feeling-doctrine of accommodating everybody), so I feel like I do have to be wary of creeping false doctrine. (dangit, just realized I'm an old fogey, now)
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