The divorce rate for pastors is at 50% according to the most recent issue of Newsweek...?

Question

I know I posted this a couple of days ago...but, thought I might get different perspectives today...

-Anyway, how can we truly hold confidence in what these men are saying from the pulpit?
-Shouldn't they be held to a higher standard?
-Why isn't their public outcry over this atrocity?
-So much time is spent railing against gays from the pulpit, but little is said of divorce...however, the Bible says more about divorce than it does about almost any other thing that fundamentalists consider sin.
-So, divorce is obviously the biggest obstacle facing the family today..and the sanctity of marriage...why aren't churches speaking up against it? Could it be they don't want to alienate so many monetary contributors...and gays are an easy less numerous target?
-I'm not looking for scripture here...I know them all Leviticus, 1 Corinthians, etc...as they relate to gays and divorced...neither according to the Bible will in herit the kingdom of god...

According to the Bible the only forgiveable reason for a divorce is infedelity...

One can only be forgiven for divorce if they are celibate...just like gays are told...so?

Answer 1

There are other justifications for divorce in a Christian marriage.


She may renounce her Christianity and decide to leave (this is a Biblical justification for divorce - the Bible says to let her go).

1Cr 7:15 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such {cases,} but God has called us to peace.

Or, they could have gotten married (as both being non-believers), then the pastor has a conversion experience, goes to school, becomes a pastor and then she decides to bolt.

Is it God's best for a pastor to get a divorce? NO. But it is allowed in certain circumstances. Sometimes fidelity can include the misstress that is his job.

I do not agree that divorce is the biggest obstacle, as there are many other things that can add to complications in life.

--Opinion---

SO, if a pastor's spouse decides to bolt because the pastor spends too much time on his ministry instead of the ministry of Jesus and the family, you think that he shouldn't?

People divorce for a myriad of reasons, including and not limited to: Finances - if the people in the church were to pay him a decent salary, then maybe they wouldn't fight over money,

irreconcilable differences - he may have a goofy laugh (I broke up with a girl once because of her accent)

She may have new boyfriends.

She may have new girlfriends.

She may have taken their money and given it to some scammer in a 419 (nope, they didn't divorce, she just killed him).

I suppose divorce is better than death, isn't it?

Answer 2

Did Newsweek spoil that down via denomination or sect, or perhaps state? this may be interesting. the substantial clarification for one of those intense divorce fee contained in the church is that a lot of human beings start up going to church even as they discover their marriage in difficulty. and they many times stay there after the divorce. even as using scripture to make a element-you need to take account of all scripture on the issue, no longer in basic terms component of one verse. If no longer, you are able to come to the incorrect end, as you probably did with Luke. If the "objective" of your divorce is to remarry-then definite, you need to be an adulterer. The Bible does no longer teach that someone who remarries after divorce is in sin. If one concludes this from reading the Bible, they have not examine all on the issue. frequently the "context" of the passage is neglected via the 'casual' reader-even as this happens, misinterpretation follows.