Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
There are six sins for which a professing believer should be promptly expelled from the church and treated as an unbeliever. Page last updated 29 January 2026. sexual immorality greed — covetousness idolatry — elevating something other than God to the place that only God should occupy verbal abuse — assailing with scornful language, slander,… Continue reading Church discipline for domestic abusers who claim to be Christians: 1 Corinthians 5:11-13.
Does "one flesh" refer to the act of sexual intercourse? Or does it signify kinship? Joshua Butler argues in Beautiful Union that "one flesh" means sexual intercourse. ...one flesh zeroes in much more directly on the center of sex itself: bodily union. ... One flesh is about the merging of two separate bodies into one.… Continue reading What does “one flesh” signify? Fictive kinship? Or sexual intercourse? (Butler Series)
