The question, here, is whether a divorce is a divorce, of course and I rather it think it is. There is no going back in a situation such as this. It just does not happen. From a counseling perspective, such a solution would be a nightmare. Finally, the point of obedience is BECOMING. The point of obedience is not some imagined righteousness through personal and legal correctness. We are no longer under law.
A course of action [ in this case ] which demands the destruction of associate lives (the children) is a clear denial of the fact that if we are led by the Spirit, we are no longer under law. Grace is the saving passion on the part of God -- He makes US right when things in our lives are oh !! so very wrong. God is not a legalist.
Jd
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From: Terry Clifton <wabbits1234@earthlink.net>
To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org <TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org>
Sent: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:41:10 -0600
Subject: [TruthTalk] What counsel would you offer?
I have run into the following situation at least twice. Some of you probably have too. Here it is.
Sally was cheer leader in high school. If you were to choose a mate strictly on physical appearance, she would be right up there among the top five. Billy was the typical small town football hero. Billy went for Sally because of her looks. Sally went for Billy because he was somebody, a big duck in a little puddle. They married right out of high school.
Billy was a big guy in a small town, but when the college coaches went shopping for recruits, they did not stop in Billy's town. No scholarship, not even an offer. Billy ended up driving the town garbage truck. The marriage lasted a little over a year. Sally felt cheated. She deserved better, so she filed for a no fault divorce.
The following spring she met Joe A. Verage. Joe was the son o f the owner of the local super market. Joe, in fact, was manager of the market, making a good salary, and sure to inherit the business when the old man passed on. In time, Joe and Sally were married, and in more time they had a couple of kids. About the time the first kid turned nine, they went to a Billy Graham crusade and were saved. They started attending church, then started attending Sunday school and everything went well for a couple of more years, then they started reading the Bible. Eventually they discovered that they seemed to be living living in an adulterous relationship.
This bothered them a lot, and so they asked the pastor to tell them what to do about this.
You are the pastor. What do you tell them?
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Sally was cheer leader in high school. If you were to choose a mate strictly on physical appearance, she would be right up there among the top five. Billy was the typical small town football hero. Billy went for Sally because of her looks. Sally went for Billy because he was somebody, a big duck in a little puddle. They married right out of high school.
Billy was a big guy in a small town, but when the college coaches went shopping for recruits, they did not stop in Billy's town. No scholarship, not even an offer. Billy ended up driving the town garbage truck. The marriage lasted a little over a year. Sally felt cheated. She deserved better, so she filed for a no fault divorce.
The following spring she met Joe A. Verage. Joe was the son o f the owner of the local super market. Joe, in fact, was manager of the market, making a good salary, and sure to inherit the business when the old man passed on. In time, Joe and Sally were married, and in more time they had a couple of kids. About the time the first kid turned nine, they went to a Billy Graham crusade and were saved. They started attending church, then started attending Sunday school and everything went well for a couple of more years, then they started reading the Bible. Eventually they discovered that they seemed to be living living in an adulterous relationship.
This bothered them a lot, and so they asked the pastor to tell them what to do about this.
You are the pastor. What do you tell them?
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"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org
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