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    Divorce and Remarriage
    Divorce and Remarriage
    Divorce and Remarriage
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    Divorce and Remarriage

    By Tony Evans

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    There are many views today on morality, relativity and right and wrong. Dr. Tony Evans refuses to let the voice of God be drowned out amidst the clamor of the crowd.

    In the age where people can get a “no-fault” divorce (When is it ever nobody’s fault?) believers who claim to live by God’s word cannot dodge the issue: we cannot skip it, run from it, or ignore it. God has spoken clearly on this subject and while it is far from easy to address, it must be dealt with. Combining a high view of marriage, compassion, and biblical authority, Tony Evans gives invaluable insight into divorce and remarriage as he explores real-life fears and questions by looking at the issue from God’s vantage point, not from our emotional one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9780802483546
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    Tony Evans

    Dr. Tony Evans is founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, and author of The Power of God’s Names, Victory in Spiritual Warfare, and many other books. Dr. Evans is the first African American to earn a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, as well as the first African American to author both a study Bible and full Bible commentary. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 2,000 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Learn more at TonyEvans.org.

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    THE COVENANT OF MARRIAGE

    The call to be biblically centered and at the same time compassionate and merciful makes any discussion on divorce and remarriage a delicate one. While we can never let compassion keep us from speaking the truth, we must also always speak the truth with love.

    No subject in our churches today carries with it such far-reaching emotional and spiritual implications. The rampant nature of divorce has made it a topic that affects nearly everyone. Some church members are children of divorced parents. Others have divorced or are contemplating divorce themselves. Some have married a divorced man or woman. And yet others have friends or relatives who have gone through a divorce.

    Yet for something that affects such a large number of us in one way or another, divorce and remarriage remains the often unacknowledged elephant sitting squarely in the center of the sanctuary. We dance around it, carry on with our praise and worship services next to it, and frequently outright ignore it.

    This is dangerous to the body of Christ as a whole and to its members as individuals for a number of reasons. One of those reasons involves the issues of sin, repentance, and restoration. Without addressing the situations of divorce that would not fall within biblical boundaries, many people are left to live their lives experiencing the ongoing consequences of sin while frequently being unaware of the source of those consequences.

    Another way this is dangerous to the body of Christ and individuals within it is that often when there has been biblical grounds for divorce, the offended party still lives with undeserved guilt and stigma in his or her life. They might even face social isolation within the church body itself. Likewise, they often fail to seek out or receive the emotional and spiritual healing that they need to become a healthy, functioning individual again after having experienced the trauma of not only what caused the divorce but of the divorce itself. This then frequently leads to further relational difficulties down the road, and a potential increase in future divorces as well.

    God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16). He makes that point clear in the book of Malachi. In fact, Malachi 2:16 is the prooftext used with regard to divorce throughout most, if not all, of Christendom. But what is frequently overlooked is that in the very same verse, God says that He also hates a man covering himself with violence (NIV).

    So what does that mean? Should a woman not divorce a man who beats her? God hates divorce. Or can she divorce him because God also hates him who covers himself with violence?

    THERE ARE OCCASIONS WHEN DIVORCE CLEARLY IS ONE-SIDED AND THE OFFENDED PARTY HAS CLEARLY BEEN TREATED UNJUSTLY.

    Gleaning a biblical understanding of divorce, therefore, includes much more than three words in one verse: God hates divorce. While that is indisputable truth, He also hates violence and hate (Malachi 2:16; 1 John 4:20). Understanding God’s viewpoint on divorce includes examining the context of biblical covenants that He established as well as the specific covenant of marriage. God has a high standard for the covenant of marriage. He has specific elements that make up a covenant. God never lowers His standards to accommodate us. Rather, we are to elevate our standards to accommodate Him. We must do the adjusting, not God.

    My purpose in this book is not to provide an easy exit or excuse for divorce. It is clear that God hates divorce, and because of that, we should hate it, too. It is not my purpose to put divorce on the lower shelf where it can be reached quickly. How to get out of marriage is never God’s mentality. My purpose is to paint an accurate picture of God’s high standard for marriage and place it against the backdrop of the reality of sin. Keep in mind that sin is always present and is always the cause of every divorce.

    Now, it might be that it is the sin of both parties that contributes to the dissolution of the marriage. But there are also many times—and this is something I feel we frequently ignore in the body of Christ—when the divorce is primarily the result of the sin of one party. Throwing around comments such as It takes two to tango or There are always two sides to every story have done an injustice to many who have already suffered an injustice at the hands of either an abusive, neglectful, or abandoning partner. Sin is involved in a murder or in a theft. But it is not manifested by both parties. Likewise, there are occasions when divorce clearly is one-sided and the offended party has clearly been treated unjustly—oftentimes repeatedly, regularly, and over an extended period of time.

    While that may be the exception and not the rule for most of the roughly one million divorces that happen in America each year, I don’t want to belittle the reality that some divorce victims face. Keeping that in

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