Right from the Start

Pastor—here’s the practical guide you need to help couples prepare for healthy, successful marriage relationships—right from the start! As couples work through their companion book, Right from the Start: A Premarital Guide for Couples, you can lead discussions and provide insights from your pastor’s guide as the couple explores their life experiences on money, sex, power, faith, and family and set their expectations for married life. Armed with the authors’ insights, real-life stories, and questions, you can guide the couple in the art of conversation as they develop skills to listen to each other and explore their different pasts as they relate to their future together. There’s space in the margins of your pastor’s guide to write notes and reminders of your contribution to the discussion process as you help couples learn the skills they will need to hash out differences and misunderstandings as they build happy, lasting marriages.