God is the center of every marriage. What God has bound together, no man or woman can ever separate.
Do you feel like your marriage is on the rocks? Is the 1-hour marriage counseling session not working for you? Do you want your marriage to still survive its course of hasty fights and irreconcilable differences? Then perhaps, a long weekend retreat is what you and your spouse need to get back on track of a good marriage.
It is often typical for married couples to fight always. Due to their different personalities and varying interest, couples would often clash in between and result to fighting and arguments. Although these situations may be very common and predictable to couples, still, it creates a barrier between the husband and wife that, if not reconciled, becomes a reason for them to no longer stay with each other.
Marriage counseling is one decision hopeful couples would do for them to make their marriage works. But, the 1 hours session per week cannot compensate on the long term fights and hurts that both the couple pain. They may talk about their issues and problems but when the time is up, they leave the room still with rage in their hearts. Instead of resolving the issue, the emotions increased and permits the couple to further not want each other.
A Christian Marriage Retreat is one proven method of allowing the couple discover themselves more in the eyes of God. Through the long weekend session, the couple could fully express their emotions without thinking of the limited time hence they can fully address the issue and be able to formulate what they have to do to retain their marriage.
So, what exactly is a Christian Marriage Retreat?
Usually, a Christian Marriage Retreat is a three-day or even one-week hideaway for couples to relax and bond with each other supplemented with counseling sessions, learning exercises, couples activities and biblical applications. It focuses on renewing the bond of every couple under the Biblical truth that God wants them to implement in their marriage.
What do couples benefit from a Christian Marriage Retreat?
The provided activities centers on couples bonding through experiential learning activities, biblical application and prayer. The counseling session will allow the couple to point out certain problems in their marriage that would cause them to separate if not resolved. It will eventually enable them to resolve their differences and plan on how to adjust to make their marriage work for both of them.
The relaxing and private getaway let the couple bond more with each other and allow them rekindle the lost feeling of love and concern they once felt before with each other. Both will involve in activities that require them to be together and have fun together.
Through the biblical applications and talk, both the husband and wife will realize the need to have God in their married life and hence would spend more time praying and reading the bible and allow God to reign in their lives.
Many couples already attest to the beauty of a Christian Marriage Retreat. Husbands become more loving and caring to their wives and the wives are more submissive and understanding to their husbands. The kind of bond formed during the Christian Marriage Retreat soon made married couples become closer to each other and to God.
Here is video example of a Christian Marriage Retreat for Army soldiers and their wives: