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To: xzins

Very true. So true it hurts.

My synod (Lutheran LCMS) is to lax on divorce. Even with that we have lower rates than most churches.

Most pastors and priests are very scared about preaching or talking about divorce. To many in the pews have gone through it, and many are hurting from it, to make it an easy sermon.

We as the Church need to fix our own flippant disregard of marriage.


49 posted on 02/05/2014 1:27:47 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum
Most pastors and priests are very scared about preaching or talking about divorce. To many in the pews have gone through it, and many are hurting from it, to make it an easy sermon. We as the Church need to fix our own flippant disregard of marriage.

Catholic churches require "pre-Cana" marriage preparation and also promote Engaged Encounter and Marriage Encounter weekend seminars.

The non-Catholic churches also need to develop curricula about engagement, marriage preparation and marriage, to promote them and be reluctant to marry anyone who has not participated in such instruction, to encourage small-group peer counseling of the marriagable or newly married by stable grandparent couples who have gone through a course and screening, and other proactive steps.

In other words, instead of decrying the darkness, take responsibility for turning on the lights.

66 posted on 02/06/2014 8:30:05 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: redgolum

See my post 41. I am an LCMS pastor whose wife left him and thus I am going through a divorce.


71 posted on 02/06/2014 8:56:40 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (D-Day is set for February 13.)
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