DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE IN A WRONG CONTEXT 29 июня, 2009
Posted by Alyosha Kolodiy in Актуальная проблема -problem of today, Библейские уроки-Bible lessons, Библия говорит - Bible Speaks, Брощюры, Трибуна братства - The brotherhood tribune, Цитаты Великих - Great Quotes, Today's Devotional.Tags: Alyosha Kolody, America, American editors, articles, divorce, fellowship, gospel, homosexuals, Journal, married, missionaries, missionary work, Muslim terrorists, New Testament, preachers, remarried, Silvio Caddeo, Ukraine
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by Silvio Caddeo
I have received recently a document written by a very well known scholar and other church printings from America that are not at all useful for the missionary work, but are instead creating many problems for us abroad. The first reason is because abroad, very often, all articles or documents printed by the church in America are looked as they were the Bible itself, which is not the case. These documents, even when well written, are still a human interpretation. Certain American editors are printing articles they should not, but evidently they are just doing their business. The second reason is that certain articles are written to respond to the American situation. Distributing that material indiscriminately in the mission field, some brothers are doing a mistake in good faith, but they are still hurting the work abroad.
A classical example about this serious problem is the wrong approach about those who are divorced and remarried, more particularly the divorced and remarried preachers or missionaries, about whom I intend to speak particularly in this article.
Some wrote that for too long we have ignored those who are divorced and now we should accept them to make an act of justice in the church. If that principle is true, well, we have ignored also the homosexuals and the pedophiles, even the converted former Muslim terrorists, but I do not see any Gospel reason to put them in charge of a congregation.
Anyway, we are not the only ones who have ignored those divorced and remarried people because in the Gospel it is as if they did not exist. In the church of the New Testament, the divorced and remarried members are not mentioned and evidently they did not have a lot of space in the brotherhood. Who has the right to say that now they should have?
What do we mean when we say that we accept the divorced and remarried believers? We mean that every repented sinner can be part of the fellowship. However, we should not feel guilty for not putting in front of the congregation certain members who have not been an example with their life!
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