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Welcome to Questions and Ethics with Russell Moore, where we apply the Gospel of the Kingdom

to cultural issues and your questions about the Christian life.

Today's question is,

to help the pastors in the room think through

when they're dealing with the topic of divorce

and remarriage in their churches. What are some framework principles that they can have in

terms of who they should marry, who they should remarry, what people are qualified for divorce, those types of things.

Help them think through that.

A pastor has to work through, what do I think are the biblically acceptable grounds

for divorce and for remarriage if he thinks there are any.

He's got to work that through and I think the time to work that through isn't

when you're sitting there with Bob and Martha. The time to work this through is at the very

beginning of your ministry. It's something I always ask in ordination councils because that's the time to talk about this.

Is that the ordination council, when you're not dealing with specific faces,

you're not dealing with specific power dynamics in the congregation,

you're saying, what does the Bible say, and are you going to commit your life? in the got to stand up and say this is what the scripture says about divorce and about

remarriage so that he can not only

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