D-I-V-O-R-C-E

"“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery."
Luke 16:18

I want to believe Jesus, I want to take seriously everything that He said in the Gospels, I want to love my neighbor and my enemy, and deny myself and take up my cross. I'm sure that if I polled my Christian friends they would agree, after all isn't why I'm a christian , because I follow Jesus. Yet today in America, the church that we call the Bride and Body of Christ is ignoring the words of the one we call Lord, now I'm not just talking about the typical thing I rant about , the old Evangelical church and its lack of love for our neighbor or our enemy. No I'm ranting about something else, divorce in the body of Christ, stats show that more christian marriages end in divorce than non christian, taking into account what Jesus said in Luke 16 that's an awful lot of adulterers in the body of Christ. It's a scary thing to think that divorce has become common place in your typical evangelical church. Yet the church in general glosses over this like its OK, but yet if a homosexual comes in and is unwilling to conform they are promptly shown the door, same as the unmarried couple living in sin or the girl that ends up pregnant. Now of course I'm not advocating giving the boot to newly divorced, but I'm saying that , what Jesus took seriously we also should take seriously. Divorce is by no means the unpardonable sin, but neither is fornication or homosexuality. Divorce hurts and scars everyone involved, a christian should do everything in their power to prevent divorce, theirs or others. we need to have grace in our marriages, we can't be like the world and call ourselves called out of that same world. The church needs to change, not to suit the world around us, but to be people that takes seriously what Jesus said and not just in loving our neighbors and enemies, but in our marriages and families also.