Author: Wayne Mack

Subtitle:

Married with Parents

Books on Christian marriage abound today. If you're like many people, you've read many of these books covering every facet of marriage imaginable. Except one: in-laws. Drawing on his years of counseling experience, Wayne Mack provides straightforward guidance for both parents and married children. While maintaining that children should always honor their parents, Mack surveys biblical evidence and concludes that married children owe first loyalty to their spouse. This concise booklet includes several appendixes that help couples assess the state of their in-law relationships.

Wayne Mack has done it again!... an intensely biblical and practical book, crisp and to the point, replete with experience and insight. Wayne has observed unhealthy in-law relationships over decades of ministry. Here is his wise counsel for setting those relationships right.

About the author:

Wayne A. Mack (1935–2025) was the author of more than two dozen books on biblical counseling and practical Christian life issues. He founded Strengthening Ministries Training Institute, a certified training center of ACBC International, and served for years as the director of ACBC Africa. Over the course of his long career, he counseled and taught at CCEF (Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation), served as chairman of the biblical counseling department at The Master’s University and Seminary in California, and was a board member of NANC (now the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) and FIRE (Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals).  

His books include Strengthening Your Marriage; Your Family God’s Way; Preparing for Marriage God’s Way; Sweethearts for A Lifetime; and A Homework Manual for Biblical Living, Volumes 1 and 2. 

Endorsements:

". . . one of the most heated arguments in a marriage can be over in-laws. This booklet is a must read for anyone who wants biblical answers in handling the issue of in-laws in a Christlike way."  ~John Street

"Wayne Mack's practical guidance for in-law issues and problems is biblical, wise, and concise."  ~Joel Beeke