Marriage Restoration. Volume 1: Forgiveness. 2nd Edition. Doug and Sita Shearer

Back in 1990, I found myself searching for an effective program that would help restore the many troubled marriages at the church I was pastoring - as well as at the churches of so many of my fellow pastors here in the Sacramento area. The more I looked, the more I became convinced that I needed to take matters into my own hands. Too many of the programs I looked into were geared toward healing marriages that were only a little troubled. Unfortunately, the marriages I was seeking to...
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Back in 1990, I found myself searching for an effective program that would help restore the many troubled marriages at the church I was pastoring - as well as at the churches of so many of my fellow pastors here in the Sacramento area. The more I looked, the more I became convinced that I needed to take matters into my own hands. Too many of the programs I looked into were geared toward healing marriages that were only a little troubled. Unfortunately, the marriages I was seeking to help were deeply troubled. The eventual result was a year and a half class consisting of eight separate sessions, each of which was guided by its own separate manual. Well over 200 couples enrolled in the class before I retired - with excellent results for those who completed the class. What caught us completely by surprise were the large numbers of unsaved couples who enrolled in the program - and who, in taking¬¬ the class, became believers. In short, we found this class to be a very effective evangelism ministry.