Divorce: Not Solution To Marriage Crisis, Church Intervene With Church Intervention Key
The Vicar in charge of the All Saints Anglican Church FESTAC Town Lagos, Rev. Michael Olorundare, on Friday said that divorce was not a solution to marital crisis rather a boost to it.
Rev. Michael Olorundare
Olorundare, a Venerable and a marriage counselor in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos said that God frowns at divorce in a marriage.
The priest, described the marriage institution as that ordained by God for His glory, urged couples to seek church intervention to solve marital troubles before it gets worse to the point of divorce.
The prolific Gospel-marriage-preacher, decried rampant divorce cases in the society; said that his cordial intervention and counseling has saved marriages in the parish in the the last two years that he resumed work in the place.
“There exist in Churches marriage counseling units that warring couples can approach and get reprieve to their troubles.
“The church is where people commune with God in a friendly atmosphere, get good news preached to them, allay their fears and hope given to them.
“God is still in the business of turning things around for the better especially when it concerns humans that He created in His image after His likeness.
“Church leaders should make the worship centres codulsive for couples especially the young ones to be able to confined in the church in that manner domestic issues are laid bare for informed counseling to be internalised.
“Friendly interactions should be encouraged among congregants to enable troubling couples speak out their grievances on latent crisis that can rock marriage unions for solutions to be elicited from the appropriate quarters,” he said.
He stressed that the family as the microcosm of the society should be stable for a stable society too.
Regrettably, he listed the consequences of a broken home to included child labour, child immoral behaviour, destitution, school drop out, night crawling, prostitution and lack of family bonding.
He expressed dismay on the subsisting social-economic hardship in the country instrumental to many home crisis; advised couples to live within their means to avoid anxieties.
He appealed to government to foster it’s policies on people’s friendly projects in order to halt rising living conditions that in most cases trigger frictions in marriages
CREDIT : NAN
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