Modern John's

I believe that someday we will look back with horror at our current attitudes and behavior concerning divorce.

Today we understand that those who harassed and attacked veterans returning from combat in Vietnam were acting in a craven manner at the lowest depths of the human spectrum. I believe that we will someday view the Church’s reluctant acceptance of the destruction of families in a similar vein.

Modern Christians have made themselves complicit in this crisis using feeble justifications of “kindness”, “understanding” and “not wanting to be judgmental” and refusing to stand in the face of evil. There are, however, voices out there ministering to this issue with integrity, compassion and love. They strike me as voices...

“...calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord.’”

- Isaiah 40:3

Please take a prayerful look at:

Rejoice Marriage Ministries

I strongly recommend them from my personal experience and ask you to prayerfully consider work and their fruit. Unfortunately we focus so much on the happiness of the husband and wife while forgetting that we are emotionally crippling the children in the family. God is healing and restoring marriages and families.

"When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask him, “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?”

Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”

- Matthew 11:2-6

If you do not know how to handle the issue of divorce in a manner that is both compassionate AND Biblically sound, you might refer people to this ministry for the care they deserve as Children of the King. Worldly dabbling in the counseling of divorce situations is fraught with peril. Even many (most?) pastors struggle to properly address this issue in a Biblically sound manner.

“You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you.

So I will destroy your mother - my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.”

- Hosea 4:5-6

I understand the terrible devastation that pastors have experienced as they deal with this epidemic of divorce that is sweeping the Church. They, more than most, are caught in the crossfire amid the ruins that divorce is pushing into our churches. However, there is a biblical response to divorce and this issue will not begin to turn around until we stop compromising in this area.

Acceding to the world’s approach to divorce has created a disaster that must be stopped. The only way this crisis will be reversed is by God's intervention and confession, repentance and seeking God’s face are the only way that we can be a part of His solution.