Just over a month after preaching against cohabitation, a Texas pastor married seven couples from his church for free last weekend in a bid to get their relationships back on a biblical path while making a strong statement on the culture of cohabitation that has swept American life.
“I encouraged couples in our church who were living together to really think through whether that was God’s best for them,” Senior Pastor Pete Briscoe of Bent Tree Bible Fellowship church in Carrollton, Texas, said after marrying the seven couples on Sunday, according to .. “At the end of the sermon, we gave them the option that if they felt God was leading them to get married, we would hold a free wedding for them on this one specific day.”
In early August, Briscoe began a series he called “Awkward” which focused on conversations about relationships and marriage that people would rather not have because it’s “awkward.” Along with his sermon on cohabitation, the series also focused on submission in marriage, counseling and remarriage.
After gushing about his daughter’s recent wedding and…
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