Tough Conversations: Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage

By Andrew Beasley     The Bible is meant to be understood. It is also written to challenge us. Sometimes, the writings of the inspired authors demand that we have difficult conversations. Sometimes those conversations must be had “looking in the mirror” so to speak. Other times those conversations must be had between one another. Will we shy away from those challenges that demand discussion and application? Will we adapt our lives to fit what the Bible teaches, or will we try to make the Bible fit what we want to believe?      If we want to make the Bible fit what we believe then we must first answer the sort of questions that God rhetorically asks Job. Where were you? Where were you when He instituted marriage shortly after He rested from creation? Do you truly wish to speak where the Bible speaks, and be silent where the Bible is silent or does that only hold true when it aligns with what we already believe?      In our study of what the Bible teaches regarding marriage, divorce and remarriage (Matthew 19), in in our study of any biblical topic, it is important that we speak where the Bible has spoken and are silent where it has not. God intends for us to understand what he desires, what he expects, and what he permits regarding marriage, to divorce, and to remarriage.

- Andrew Beasley serves as a minister with the Northwest Church of Christ in Greensboro, NC. He may be contacted through the congregation's website: https://nwchurchofchrist.com/about/