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Wow this is a sore subject.I posted this earlier today on my way to dropping my daughter at school.
I came to God after having been divorced.I was married at seventeen right out of high school and divorced by the time I was twenty one.I was twenty two when someone invited me to a Pentecostal Church service and engaged at the time to a backslider.He always regretted taking me to church because I broke off the engagement to find Gods will.It was an issue when God called me to ministry whether a person who had been divorced before they were saved could be a minister.Thankfully the LaDist UPC board never held it against me.I do know of pastors who will not even allow anyone who has been divorced to teach anything or even sing in the church.They are eternally punished.Its a sad thing.One sister told me that when she came to God the only thing she was allowed to do regardless that her divorce was before salvation was to teach children or sinners.She said the children must have been regarded on the same level as sinners since they did not count.
I was shocked at that.There are people coming to Jesus now that have been married four or five times.Which stone do we throw? It seems like the pharaseeical spirit is very alive and well.I have to wonder.
One church organization will license its ministers if they were married and divorced and remarried before coming to Jesus but if they come to God divorced then they
cannot have been married again if they want to minister.To me that is holding a double standard.They are saying if you want to be a preacher prepare to be alone all the days of your life and watch the rest of us have joy while you suffer forever you horrible sinner.I see a whip involved in this not a cross.
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