LIFE IN COURTSHIP RELATIONSHIPS

 *LIFE IN A COURTSHIP RELATIONSHIP*

*Understanding courtship dynamics*

🔵Purpose: The partners must understand the purpose of the courtship. You cant be in courtship without knowing the purpose of the courtship. Courtship is for marriage not trial, sex or playing. Non focused relationships are dangerous

🔵Prayer: They must pray for themselves, in-laws, church leaders and their future. In courtship, there are many challenges and spiritual battles which must fought by prayer. 

🔵Purity: There is an urge or temptation to sleep together and this should be controlled as much.

🔵Place of courtship: Here we speak of whether a courtship state is long distant or not. Long distance courtships have their own challenges which should be tackled with wisdom. 

🔵Participation: Those in courtship must participate in their own relationship. If you dont do this, the relationship will definitely crumble.

🔵Planning: As you are together there should be a concrete plan in terms of lobola, wedding and the marriage life. Plan how you are going to finance for this. 

🔵Period: Though there is no prescribed period of courtship, the period must not be long. Long courtship will give room to the devil. 

🔵Premarital counselling: Premarital counselling is platform of one or more counselling sessions in counselling given to parties ready or preparing for marriage for guidance and resolving of some issues in courtship.

🔵Processes: These include family introductions, engagement, lobola payment and wedding planning.

Many young people exhaust themselves and anxiously await the wedding day without putting any thought into what comes after the wedding. There is need to plan ahead and seeing the world after the wedding. 

John Museredzo is a marriage counsellor | pastor | author | leadership expert 

Contacts: +263712154277, jhnmuseredzo@gmail.com, www.johnmuseredzo.blogspot.com

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ONLINE CHURCHES POSTERS

*ONLINE CHURCH COMMUNICATION 101*

POSTER INTERNATIONALISATION MAKEUP

With online churches surges, those holding the virtual must have a deliberate understanding that they are no longer confined in their local set up. Going online is going global and influencing globally.

Posters are a means of communication and heralding your services outside the confines of your locality. You are actually inviting people all over the whole world with the poster. Therefore these posters must not leave doubt and more questions to the one seeing them in terms of information seeking. Below are key information dynamics which can help in poster communication:
✅Quality: The poster quality must be top notch. Remember this is all about branding communications. It must not be congested such that you can't follow what the poster is communicating. It is not necessary to put 'every' leader on the poster like Host Pastor, Host Secretary, Host Chairman, Forerunner etc.
✅Church name: It maybe necessary to write in full the name of your assembly. It is not in good shape to write WICC, because you may know what WICC is but what about us. Any abbreviation can be interpreted differently.
✅Country Name: Because the poster is inviting people for online churches worldwide it is prudent if possible to hint the country where there services are being held or where this church is found esp on address.
✅Speaker: The speaker's title must be respected esp on the picture being used, be it Dr, Prophet, Apostle etc. It is also key to put the country of origin of that person for example Pastor John - Zimbabwe. This is because the church has grown big and this information can assist someone esp those who may want to follow their 'own'.
✅Pictures: Please communicate with the speaker and request usage of preferred pictures. Don't just pluck pictures from social media and put the picture on the poster. Some pictures were good at that time but no longer relevant. The picture must be as clear as possible esp for those who may want identify with the speaker.
✅Contacts: When putting telephone or cellphone contacts of speaker, host or contact persons it is wise to put the country code. Someone may want to communicate with you or speaker and it must not be that difficult. If possible two contacts are good for choice. Those who do or design posters, it is not necessary to put your contact there because it distorts the communication on the poster.
✅Online platforms: The platforms being used for the online service must be clear. Is it zoom, Facebook, WhatsApp etc? Don't just write online service without indicating which platforms. If zoom give details of ID or password, if Facebook highlight if it is through the page or group or personal profile.
✅Time: Time for beaming the service must be in consciousness of different time zones. Saying 7pm may not mean something in Zimbabwe but may mean something in Malaysia. So if possible, you can add standard time configurations at the end like 7pm Central African Time (CAT) or British Summer Time (BST). This gives guidance to your viewers.
✅Circulation: If possible it is courtesy to show your speaker first  speaker than the speaker seeing the poster in the public domain or through someone.

John Museredzo is a blogger l pastor l online preacher l author
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YOUTH AND PARENTAL BLESSINGS

*WORD TO THE YOUTH*

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth - Ephesians 6:2-3

Many youth are living without parental blessings. They are leaving like orphans when their biological parents are there. They operate as if they do not have parents. Many youth have lost touch with their own parents. They do not visit them, communicate with them, and support them emotionally or financially. It is also painful that some youth have ‘discovered’ some ‘father’ or ‘mother’ figure where they now stay who have now replaced their own living parents. Here are the excuses most youths are giving concerning the distance they have created from their parents:
• My parents are too far away.
• I am now independent and I have my own life.
• I wanna fix my parents for what they did to me. I am angry against them.
• There is no money to support them.
• I am stressed up by my own issues. I can be seen accommodating some people in my life.
• My parents are too old and too sick to be my parents.
• They abused me and it is my turn to abuse them.
• We are many in our family. Others can support also. It is not my duty only.

You must understand that your parent is your parent no matter what. You need them. Today I see the spirit of rejection in many youth. Decide to forgive your parents. Pick up your phone and call your parents. Greet them with love. Be concerned about their care and welfare. They are still your parents. With that little visit them. One time my father said, ‘It is not money we need but to see you only’ Life sharing is important

*Affirmation*

*I love my parents
*I have the best parents
*God bless my parents

John Museredzo is a passionate teacher of the word and relationships expert. +263775127589, +263712154277

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