Counseling Cohabiting Couples | Pastor's Inbox

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And in this conversation, we're going to address a very important matter, and that is cohabitation or counseling cohabiting couples, how to handle giving counsel to people who are living together who are not married.

that this is a very weighty subject and important subject in our day and age so to kick this off for the first division of our conversation i want to ask the pastors would you perform a wedding ceremony for two cohabiting persons obviously male and female And more specifically, two cohabiting persons who planned a wedding date, but who would not separate and receive marriage counseling before their wedding.

And then a comment to add to this, if we would not bless our presence by attending a same-sex wedding, would it not follow that we shouldn't attend or officiate at a wedding where a couple would be living in fornication up to the night of their wedding? I know that this is a little detailed first question.

I think it's helpful to set the stage for how we might respond.

So pastors, how would you respond to this question?