![]() Eventually Abraham came back to the fold. In this Christianity Today article the statement was made, " There's nothing we fallible parents can do to ensure our kids will keep the faith." The church did the right thing and excommunicated Abraham. Piper has spoken of it publicly in interviews and has written about it publicly. 5For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God? (1 Timothy 3:4-5).įor example, John Piper had an issue with his young adult son Abraham being a prodigal for a while. More on that below.Īn overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity. Just as much as we love to see good marriages, we are heartened when people divorce well (when necessary and are biblically allowed). He only sanctions divorce in two circumstances, if absolutely necessary: adultery and abandonment. Novelist Pat Conroy said of his own marriage break-up, "Each divorce is the death of a small civilization." Divorce is very hurtful whether you're saved or unsaved. Both times I married and divorced the reasons were biblically allowable but it was moot, because I was unsaved. The second time I married, I was the one who chose divorce, for abandonment reasons. He fell in love with someone else and left, despite my interest in staying together. Unfortunately I married early and unwisely. I had no understanding of God's view of marriage, because I was not saved until I was 43, but I knew it was very important. I was very interested in what made a marriage work and hungry for its stability. Long lasting marriages were something that seemed to belong in a museum. My father moved in with his much younger girlfriend and my mother continued seeing her older married gentlemen friend. ![]() During that time, nearly every state either replaced or supplemented its fault-based system with some form of no-fault divorceĭivorce laws that had been instituted in the US for hundreds of years were were overhauled from coast to coast within just 15. In this article by Meghan Kruger from the Roger Williams Law Review,īetween 19, the United States experienced an overhaul in divorce legislation. I'm not exaggerating about the rapid rate divorce took over. Divorce as a "completely off the table" concept to "divorce is everywhere" fact occurred at a bewildering rate to my young eyes. No-fault divorce came about and as a result throughout the 1970s divorce rapidly began losing its stigma. Growing up in the sexual revolution 1960s and swinging 70s, monogamous marriage as an ordination from God suffered terribly as new sexual mores came into the American culture. People who had been deceived by charismatic doctrine tend to be focused on deception/purity in the church. Children of alcoholics tend to have an interest in the Christian discussion of teetotaling. Many Christians have a sin or an issue which they have a particular affinity against or former involvement with.
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