기독교 결혼 예비교육에 대한 고찰

Abstract

Today’s rapidly changing society is making a lot of family conflicts, and family disjoints, as well as divorces. In order to prevent and relieve the current family crisis, there appears a great need of Christian premarital education. The incessant influx of alien, non-Christian multi-cultural ideas into the established, long-preserved family tradition and values and the dysfunctional marriage and family phenomena have been not only disintegrating the existing family, but also despairing the hope of premarital couples. Premarital education program not only help prevent family problems but also its education will makes more mature couples. This thesis consists of mainly two parts: the theoretical study of the premarital education and the practice of the premarital education. The theoretical study of the issue follows: First, the current family situation in society is dealt in depth and thereby the urgent necessity of the study of this issue. Secondly, to understand the family crisis, the biblical meaning of marriage is reviewed. Thirdly, based upon the biblical principles, the pre-marital education are dealt in five domains: the prioritization of genuine relationship with God over the couple’s relationship, the biblical understanding of a husband’s role and a wife’s role, the biblical meanings of sex, the issue of the Christian child rearing, and the wise management of family finance. The practice of the issue follows: the introduction of major perspectives of Christian premarital education, the best timing of the practice, the required number of a total cession, the needed personnel of education, the appropriate size of the class, the composition of the curriculum, and the helping psychological instruments. As a summary of the study, it is suggested that in order not to let the current family crisis and disintegration getting worse, as a Christian we not only need to be equipped with the biblical world view and the biblical understanding of marriage, but also as a church and fellow Christians, we need to help the premarital couples to be informed and think over the true meaning of marriage before and after and while living in it.