Why is the divorce rate in the church the same as in the world?

Question

The marriage covenant is so easily broken, yet we trust God to keep covenant. I am so glad that God is God and He is not the Church. I am so glad that God cannot lie. The church is a mess.

Answer 1

Because of false conversions.
When the church starts to look more like the world then the church needs to re-evaluate It's teachings.
Anyone can say the sinner's prayer and get a case of the do better's,but like the Bible says,a dog will return to his vomit.
When men & women take their rightfull place In the marriage union and put God as the head of It,then It will be blessed.
When the church starts to look more like the world to draw more people Into the congregation,Leave.
We are a peculiar people.We're to be In this world not of It.
Be not unequally yoked. That applies to everything In your walk with God. Marry a person of like faith/beliefs.
Wait on the Lord to send that person He has for you. God Is never wrong.

Answer 2

Denomination (in order of decreasing divorce rate) % who have been divorced

Non-denominational 34%
Jews 30%
Baptists 29%
Born-again Christians 27%
Mainline Protestants 25%
Mormons 24%
Catholics 21%
Lutherans 21%
Atheists, Agnostics 21%

George Barna, president and founder of Barna Research Group, commented:

"While it may be alarming to discover that born again Christians are more likely than others to experience a divorce, that pattern has been in place for quite some time. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is that when those individuals experience a divorce many of them feel their community of faith provides rejection rather than support and healing. But the research also raises questions regarding the effectiveness of how churches minister to families. The ultimate responsibility for a marriage belongs to the husband and wife, but the high incidence of divorce within the Christian community challenges the idea that churches provide truly practical and life-changing support for marriages."

Answer 3

Simple. More and more non-church people are simply living together without marriage. So their "breakups" are not counted as divorces. Results is that the number of "divorces" by non-church people is greatly undercounted. This makes the number within the church appear to be higher then it is.

If the number of "livings in" who split were included, they would far exceed the divorces in the church.

So the number is not an accurate reflection of what is happening in the church and society.

Answer 4

Probably because people are not waiting on God for their mates but rather they are choosing their own and it is not the will of the Lord that those people be together.

If more women and men would wait on God to make provisions in their lives they would see things work together for their good more often.

Answer 5

Read "how to lie with statistics" abd you will understand that statisticacs are a tool to convince others that your view is correct. If you documented your sorce, I would put out another statistic that would conterdict yours.... it is a game..faulse proof.

on the subject of Curch divorces.... there seems to be some presumption that "church" ( also requires a definition... do youmeen fatih?, people who go to church regularly?, people who pay dues and are on the church register?, what faith are you talking about? Muslums have a very low divorce rate, and mormans marry many times, so maybe they have a negitive divorce rate?.......... also what is a marage....a commitment or are we just counting ones thet the govornment ( every govornment ot only certain tribes or countries?)has "blessed".. or recognizes or are we talking about ones that "God" has blessed or recognizes.

OK, back to the presumprion that "church" is "supposed" to help people stay "married". I say it is not! how can it? by making a rule that you have to or you will go to hell?..... by sugggesting thet you "have" to stay married no matter how distructive it is to you personaly?... by suggesting God" is to become before your partner?... ( note the huge disrepencies in what people can believe what God wants anyway) by making rules about what is OK for a partner to think and suggesting parts of you and your partner are evil?

Using the statistic that some of the other people here have used that states thet divorces in the "church" are higher, I would suggest it is because the church suggests that it comes before you, and your partner, a traditional church wedding is a contract.... not between you and your spouce, but between you , your spouce, the church, ( not God) and the State that you marry in. ( that gives them athority to intervien)... so we now have 3 other parties making rules for what is OK to do, think, be, ect in your life when the reality is there should be one...... ever find it difficult to please 3 people instead of one?........ hummmm.....

Back to the point... the order is messed up.. you need to keep this order.. you are first..... you have to take care of yourself, grow thrive ext so that you have more to give back to a spouce, God ect.... then comes your spouce.. since she/he is really a part of you..... and the same attention applies to taking care of the "other half" of yourself.... one half cant die and the other side be healthey.... an impossability.... Then comes your children.... and then God..... you dont neglect a spouce in favor of yourself, or God in favor of your spounce... it just means that if ever the 2 are in conflice, you favor youe spouce first....

I see God as a Father figure.. and he would want for me what I would want for my kids.... I wouold not want them to neglect their spouce in favor of me... It can never be fofilling for them if anything anyone comes before their spoice.... so say tell the church to butt out... accept their position as #3-4 in peples lives ad support them instead of putting them in conflict with their own needs.

Answer 6

because the churches teach a false doctrine.

Divorce is not permitted Read Romans 7:1

Also, the Catholic Church started giving annulments out like candy to it's members.

So sad.... yes

Answer 7

I guess a christian would have more reasons to divorce somebody.....higher standards.....but then some people shouldn't get married in the first place

Answer 8

It's actually higher than those outside the church...

Answer 9

Its actually a little bit higher.

The reason lies in the doctrine of salvation by Grace alone.

Answer 10

Actually most Christian sects have a higher divorce rate than others.