Open AccessPendampingan Pastoral Terhadap Anggota Jemaat Pascamenikah di HKBP Petukangan
Author(s) -
Todo Sirait
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mitra sriwijaya
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2723-326X
pISSN - 2722-8487
DOI - 10.46974/ms.v1i2.17
Subject(s) - wife , pastoral care , forgiveness , christian ministry , sociology , local church , gender studies , psychology , political science , social psychology , law
ABSTRACT
This research is intended to give attention to members of the congregation after marriage. Everyone would want tobe happy life through marriage. However, in the course of time there were so many problems they faced. It could be that the problem is caused because they have not yet inherited. It could also be through the presence of a third person in a marriage so that it can cause problems of married couples with psychological, socio-cultural, economic and religious impacts.
Based on this problem the pastor wants to make research and provide help through pastoral care after marriage that is atonement and nurturing. What is meant by reconciliation is a married couple trying to rebuild peace relations with God and fellow human beings. The real foundation of the atonement ministry lies in Christ atoning work (2 Corinthians 5:19). What is meant by nurturing is to enable a married couple to develop the potential that God has given them throughout their life's journey with all the valleys, peaks, and terrain. When husband and wife have reconciled, they can develop the potential for mutual love and forgiveness.
Sampling was conducted in 5 cases of marriage in the Petukangan HKBP church. Pastoral care for members of the congregation after marriage has not been optimal and has not even been done. Even though they are in the middle of the church. pastoral care is carried out at the time of marriage preparation and after marriage there is no more post-marital pastoral care services.
Relevant pastoral care for members of the congregation after marriage at the Petukangan HKBP is reconciling and nurturing. there are so many forms and ways of pastoral care that are commonly known. but in this paper the authors choose another way that is through marriage enrichment or coaching husband and wife through a husband and wife retreat retreat whose purpose is to fertilize the marriage so that the marriage can be intact and sustainable until death separates them.