When I wrote Not Under Bondage, I emphasized the application of Matthew 18 for cases of domestic abuse. Here in a nutshell is what I said about this in the first edition of Not Under Bondage. If an abuser is a professing Christian, the victim of abuse should try to follow the steps of Matthew… Continue reading Church discipline and church permission for divorce – how my mind has changed
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No Divorce for Abuse is a False Gospel
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3) The widespread teaching permeating the Christian church that denies that abuse is grounds for divorce is in fact, I maintain, a false gospel. How can that be? After all, don't the people that teach the permanence… Continue reading No Divorce for Abuse is a False Gospel
