Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
People often think Jesus said adultery was the only grounds for divorce, but we’ve misunderstood what Jesus said in Matthew 19 because we haven’t understood the cultural background. When the Pharisees tested Jesus by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?” they were alluding to a dispute between… Continue reading Isn’t adultery the only ground for divorce?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcrkUsq69lk I believe the story of the Levite's concubine is the best case study of domestic abuse bar none. It shows how cunningly abusers predate on their targets, and how the abuser enlists many allies to enable him to engineer destruction on a mass scale, with women often being the most targeted and victimised. This… Continue reading The Levite’s Concubine — a case study in domestic abuse and how abusers enlist allies
