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The purpose of this paper is to study the ministry of the pastors who participated in Imago Couple Relationship Therapy and the experiences of their reforming God's image by phenomenological research method. The rapid increase in divorce rate in Korea causes many social problems such as family break down, its subsequent juvenile delinquency, suicide, increase in crime, phenomenon to avoid marriage, low birth rate, aging, and etc.
To save broken families and restore healthy couple relationship is biblical teaching and mission for churches and pastors. Therefore, the experiences of the pastors in Korean churches, looking for the alternatives for the couple problems which is the core of family crisis today, participated in the Imago Couple Relationship therapy, which is proven to be the best program of the worldwide couple therapies, were studied. Also, how the experiences influence their ministry and what perceptional change there is in reforming God's image were studied.
For this, the change in couple relationship, the influence in the ministry, and the meaning of reforming experience in God's image for six pastors who were educated according to the structured manual by internationally certified Imago Couple Relationship professional were investigated and conceptualized on the basis of interview, voice recording, e-mail, and non-verbal expression during the interview. In order to introduce the theoretical background of couple therapy, internationally widely known leading models of couple education were examined comparing with Imago Couple Relationship education model, and the characteristics of Imago Couple Relationship education and its need were looked into.
As a result of the phenomenological research, the experiences in Imago Couple Relationship therapy were categorized into 6 following subjects:
1. Unfinished Imago(wounds in childhood) from relational experience in original family influences the causes of the meeting of couples and their conflict.
2. What is important in couple relationship is not character but their relationship.
3. What is important in ministry is family ministry and restoration of couples.
4. Imago Couple Relationship education is integral and biblical.
5. Men and God are relational beings.
6. Restoration of couples through Imago Couple Relationship education experience reforms God's image.
From the result of this study, it was found that formation of pastoral couple relationship is very important and especially its contents greatly affect reformation of God's image.