Advantages of Right Start
 | Provides a proven, biblical, premarital preparation
program for the use of couples and churches, elders, pastors, missionaries, and counselors |
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Prepares couples through the most
comprehensive and thorough program available today |
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Reinforces the church's high standards for
marriage |
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Makes optimum use of classroom or self-study
instruction, and the essential mentoring relationship established
between the shepherding couple and the premarital couple |
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Provides thorough, individualized preparation
for healthy marriages by sharing the responsibility of the required
counseling |
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Incorporates adequate process time to surface
issues, address problems, learn new skills, and demonstrate change |
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Emphasizes thoughtful, covenant commitment |
| Provides assistance to those considering the
wisdom of embarking on a particular marriage |
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Presents a careful approach to remarriage and
blended family issues |
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Develops trained mentors, equipped for church
leadership |
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Represents the results of 24 years of refinement and
testing |
Format
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Two methods available--a classroom version and
a self-study program |
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Self-analysis, testing, and study (in
textbook) prior to starting classes or lessons |
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Ten classroom presentations, or ten lessons in
the
Right Start Student Workbook |
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Coordinated classwork and homework |
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Coordinated mentoring |
Authors
Richard and Anne Swartley live in Highlands Ranch,
Colorado. Richard took early retirement as a senior systems engineer
from Lockheed Martin (formerly GE Aerospace) and is a seminary graduate.
He has co-authored, with Alexander Strauch, The Mentor's Guide to
Biblical Eldership, and authored Eldership In Action: Through
Biblical Governance of the Church, both available through
Lewis and Roth Publishers. Mr. Swartley
was a founding elder of Church of
the Saviour, a large non-denominational church in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Anne Swartley, who has served as an editor for
Lewis and Roth Publishers for both the Study Guide to Biblical
Eldership and The Mentors' Guide to Biblical Eldership, has
conducted most of the research and editing of the Right Start materials.
The Swartleys have been married 51 years.
What Others Have Said
If
you want to take seriously the responsibility of uniting two people for life and desire to have strong godly families, then you owe
it to yourself to know and utilize the Right Start materials. They
represent the most comprehensive biblical program that we have seen. The full
resources of the church are utilized (the mentoring aspect is one of
its strongest features) to prepare men and women for the second most
important decision (after a personal commitment to Christ) that they
will ever make. Our staff regularly makes referrals to the Right
Start program, and we make sure the materials are referenced in all our
Marriage and Family classes.
Dr.
John Bettler
Co-Founder and former Executive Director,
The Christian Counseling and Education Foundation, Orland,
Pennsylvania
Former Professor of Practical
Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary
This is the highest quality material on the market: a thorough, in-depth
program requiring a mentoring format. Excellent for
churches wanting to produce successful marriages.
Alexander
Strauch
Bible teacher and popular speaker, Littleton, Colorado
Prolific author, especially of the classic work,
Biblical Eldership,
An Urgent
Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership
At
a time when many marriages are crumbling, Right Start provides an outstanding
tool for helping marriages begin on a strong foundation. The combination of
essential biblical information, individual testing and assessment, and
oversight by personal mentors gives more help than any other program I have
seen.
Tom
Jones
Director,
Fresh Start Divorce Recovery Seminars, Midwest
Pastor of Counseling and Marriage,
Twin Oaks Presbyterian
Church, St Louis, Missouri
It is not
news that marriage is in
trouble in our society. The Right Start program
is a biblically-based approach which helps churches prepare couples for the biggest challenge of their lives. In addition to the
biblical insights and principles presented through classes,
reading, and homework, the mentoring component of Right Start enables
couples to anticipate situations they are likely to encounter after the wedding, in
light of the Bible, their backgrounds, and the dynamics of their present
relationships.
Dr.
Edward G. Kuhlmann
Professor and Chairman, Social Work Department, Eastern
College
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Former Executive Director, North American
Association of Christians
in Social Work
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