PREMARITAL & WEDDING SERVICES

CONGRATULATIONS!

We congratulate you for being interested in pursuing premarital counseling. That puts you ahead of most couples who do not get premarital counseling and then, too often, end up having marital problems that could have been avoided ahead of time.

And with marriage statistics not leaning in anyone’s favor, we feel strongly at Epic that God wants us to help couples build their relationship on a solid foundation. That’s why we put so much emphasis on our premarital counseling process. In fact, our pastors are so passionate about helping couples stay together forever that they will not perform a wedding for someone who has not gone through premarital counseling and who is not a regular attender at Epic.

SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE

We believe that marriage is to be a beautiful picture of our relationship with God. A Christian marriage between a man and a woman should be an example to the world that God is alive and real and is passionately interested in a relationship with everyone. Therefore, marriage should not be entered without serious prayer, thought, and preparation.

CHRISTIAN COUNSELING APPROACH

We believe at Epic that our relationship with God, through His Son Jesus Christ, has much to do with how we live our lives. Choosing to live our lives and our marriages by Biblical principles is an important part of experiencing a successful married life.

When we choose to live by God’s principles life typically goes better for us. When we choose to live outside of God’s principles life typically goes worse.

Thus, conversations about God and His will for your relationship will be a significant part of the premarital counseling discussions. The Bible will be our guide on this journey of finding God’s will for your relationship.

PURITY COVENANT

A major part of following God’s plans for your relationship involves remaining pure sexually before you get married. Sexual intimacy is God’s great gift to us and He knows that it works best within the boundaries of marriage. As you move through the premarital counseling, you are being asked to make a purity covenant to remain sexually pure until you are married. The Bible teaches that having sex before marriage actually weakens the marital foundation instead of strengthening it. And couples who have already crossed that line can restart that part of their relationship and experience God’s blessings for their commitment to sexual purity.  As you move forward with our premarital counseling, we ask that you make the following purity promises to God and your fiancé.

PREPARE INVENTORY

At the onset of counseling, you will be asked to take the Prepare Inventory. The Prepare Inventory is a customized couple assessment completed online that identifies a couple’s strength and growth areas. It is one of the most widely used programs for premarital education. Based on the couple’s assessment results, a trained facilitator will provide feedback in the premarital sessions by helping the couple discuss and understand their results and learn new relationship skills.