Dealing with Divorce
We have found ourselves in the middle of a divorce epidemic. Studies show us that over 50% of marriages (including Christian marriages), are ending in divorce (67% of all second marriages). With this rising epidemic taking place before our eyes, and dramatically impacting our culture, as well as the church, how is the Body of Christ to interpret the phenomena? The best way to interpret this is obviously through the lenses of Scripture. What does the Bible say about divorce? A similar question to this was posed to Jesus when the Pharisees asked him, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” (Matthew 19:3) In other words, “Jesus, what is your interpretation of God’s Word regarding the subject of divorce?” Jesus’ responded to them by saying, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. ...