Posted on 08/06/2013 12:01:51 PM PDT by Morgana
Great testimony.
Thanks.
I think we’ve all been there at some point or another.
I know it. It’s all over Scripture. That’s what scares me.
“I haven’t heard divorce encouraged, trivialized, or permitted in any Evangelical church I’ve ever attended.”
When I was Baptist the subject never came up at all. Now mind you this was in the 1980’s when divorce rates were already shooting up and many kids in my Sunday school class were products of divorce. I knew this because they came every other or every so many Sundays when the “other parent” had time with them.
A lot of what these churches, really any church should do is not only talk about the harm divorce does to children and society. More than this churches should stress the importance of the benefits of what marriage, a solid one man, one woman, marriage does for society and children.
I found an interesting article about marriage and what one church is doing to encourage it.
HAPPILY EVER AFTER
A free wedding weekend
http://www.alliancelife.org/article.php?id=830
That church is actively working to get people married.
“That church is actively working to get people married.”
Getting people married and keeping them married are two different things!! Marriage, or Holy Matrimony is a Sacrament, or at least in my church it is. Trouble is most don’t view it this way. Go in marriage only for lust then that marriage is doomed from the beginning. The American Indians did better with arranged marriages because the couple was forced to find favorable attributes in one another. Not so in a culture with no fault divorce.
That is still true in many parts of the world.
But what we have to work with is the culture we are in and we have to do the best we can with what we have.
People who are unchurched and yet walk into a church looking for something, cannot be rejected because we don’t like their lifestyle or lifestyle choices. They must be discipled.
God will change them to do what is right by changing their hearts.
Jesus rejected no one even though He told them to go and sin no more.
“That is still true in many parts of the world.
But what we have to work with is the culture we are in and we have to do the best we can with what we have.
People who are unchurched and yet walk into a church looking for something, cannot be rejected because we don’t like their lifestyle or lifestyle choices. They must be discipled.”
I was talking about the culture we are in. Our culture is going down the toilet. That is what this article is about. Divorce is so high people don’t bother to get married and just live together. It’s cheaper than divorce and less painful in a breakup. Most that do get married are so two and three times! I have seen this myself. Somewhere along the way these churches are failing. Don’t like their “lifestyle”? Oh sheese some of these so called churches are accepting their “lifestyle” to the point they marry the two men or two women.
“presently no screen name” is just another churchian slut who is trying to justify her filing of divorce against her loyal husband. My message to “presently no screen name”... Shut up, go back to the kitchen, and make your husband a sandwich.
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