Should We Get Married? How to Evaluate Your Relationship

CCEF Minibooks

by William P. Smith

You know you're in love--you always want to be together, and you think about each other all the time--but does that mean you're ready to get married? How do you decide if your relationship is strong enough for marriage? CCEFs Should We Get Married? How to Evaluate Your Relationship by William P. Smith gives you a series of questions based on biblical principles that you can use to assess your relationship's strengths and weaknesses. Answering these questions about your vision, goals, and potential conflicts will help you decide together whether you should slow your relationship down or move forward toward marriage. This booklet is a great resource for pastors and others to use during premarital counseling or classes.  All the minibooks in our Christian bookstore offer gospel-centered hope for everyday issues like parenting, marriage, and personal change. These easy-to-read discipleship and biblical counseling resources tackle lifes toughest issues in 30 minutes or less. Minibooks are frequently used by pastors and ministry leaders to help others apply biblical wisdom to specific life issues. Churches, biblical counseling ministries, and missional organizations make the minibooks available in their acrylic display cases to further discipleship and gospel-centered living.

Genres: Marriage

24 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 1905

About the author

William P. Smith, M.Div., PhD., is the director of counselling at Chelten Baptist Church, Dresher, PA., adjunct faculty at CCEF, and the author of many counselling articles and the book Caught off Guard: Encounters With the Unexpected God.

Reviews

[Yosef · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very clear and practical

[Tracey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short 23-page booklet gives a list of helpful questions designed to help the Christian couple considering marriage make that decision. These questions will help the readers see if they are "on the same page" in their approaches to inevitable issues that will arise during the course of marriage.

Note: I think that David Powlison's booklet in the same CCEF series called "Pre-Engagement: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself" seems more effective.

[Caleb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Asks some awesome relationship questions for Christians! Read it!