[Elsie]

Charles Stanley's marriage foundered, and he is no longer in a Scriptural position to continue as a teaching elder or pastor anywhere, or underwrite any religious publications.

Oh?

I'd like to see the SCRIPTURE that teaches that.

Until you post it; read THIS...

1 Corinthians 7:15

But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

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Not that the wife was an 'unbeliever'; but SHE left him - NOT the other way around.

[imardmd1]

Separation, yes--when infantilism reigns; but divorce, no. Christ laid this out in his teaching of the eternal meaning of marriage. Any Jew can tell you that the exception clause found in Mt. 5 and Mt. 19 applies neither to the procedural nor the substantive processes of marital union of Gentiles; neither before, during, nor after the Mosaic nor Davidic Covenants.

You will be better informed if you read through the article entitled "The Sin of Remarriage Adultery" which gives the desired Scriptural foundation for my comment.

Regarding Dr. Stanley and his predicament in retaining an office in the church as elder or teacher, reading the Holy Ghost's instructions to Timothy and Titus (and their ongoing later supervisory equivalents), in 1 Tim 3 and Titus 1, with plenty of meditation, will verify what I said about that issue.