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Is It Time To Change Our Views Of Adultery and Marriage?
But in the course of a long term relationship, taking into account the practical realities of our human need to experience life on our own, or through experiences with other platonic or romantic relationships, perhaps a new kind of conversation can unfold with your spouse or partner where you jointly communicate your needs and set reasonable and practical parameters of what is and isn’t allowed in your marriage, so the negative and hidden behaviors associated with adultery don’t take place.
A Christian Response to “Is It Time to Change Our Views of Adultery and Marriage?”
Further, when the New Testament was given, there is nothing that can be remotely used to sanction anything other than one man with one woman for a lifetime. Marriage is sacred and God-honoring. When we sever the bonds of marriage, we are making it more difficult to display the never-ending faithfulness of God.
5 Church-Types to Probably NOT Avoid, but Embrace
As I mentioned in the previous blog as well, I’m in a season where reconstruction seems more fruitful that deconstruction. I’m still passionate about the latter, but want to be cautious not to neglect the former. This post seeks to be the “reconstructive” pairing to the “deconstructive” original article.
New Challenges in Foreign Missions, Part 1
- We only have the stamina for harvesting, not for planting and nurturing.
- We believe we should be able to work everywhere else in the world cheaper than in the U.S.
- Our mission work is dependent on how many self-motivated missionaries surface in our fellowship.
- We are not by nature collaborative.
- Our missionaries tend to be “lone rangers!”
- We have been and are still too often negligent in carry for missionaries on the field, but especially when they return.
Why Playing it Safe as a Pastor Is the Riskiest Move You’ll Make
The irony is that while avoiding church conflict buys you time now, long-term—as I hope to show you—it guarantees failure. And anything that guarantees failure is the opposite of safe. It’s the ultimate risk, because you’re betting you will be the one-in-a-million pastor whose church problems go away all by themselves.
Who’s hot in Hollywood? God, apparently
So why is God so hot right now? Many pundits speculate that Hollywood is running out of comic books, and has turned to the Bible, which is action-packed, for fresh heroes. Heaton, who is as frank as she is warm, has her own ideas. “There’s clearly a hunger for people wanting some deeper meaning or hope in the world today, where there are a lot of terrible, difficult things going on,” she says. “Hope that this is not all there is, and that there is a purpose to the struggles that you go through.
11 Brutal Reminders That You Can and Will Get Fired for What You Post on Facebook
The unfortunate folks below didn’t get that memo. Here are 11 examples of Facebookers who weren’t so careful with what they shared and, as a result, put their employment statuses in jeopardy because of it.
For the sake of accuracy a minority of Jews were still practicing polygamy in the first century as Josephus attests. In fact polygamy was most common among conservative Jews- those the least affected by Hellenism. This group included the priests of whom Luke tells us that many were baptized and became Christians (while still practicing Judaism of course). The early church almost certainly included polygamists. Monogamy became the norm in Western society due to Greek and Roman culture. There is actually nothing in the New Testament that would forbid polygamy. I’m no fan of polygamy. I think it’s bad for society. But it is simply not accurate to state that only one man-one woman marriages would have been permissible in the early church. Only Elders were forbidden to have more than one wife. Our premises, those beliefs that seem so self-evident and obvious to us, are often rooted not in Scripture but in our culture.
Gary,
I hope you posted your comment on the original blog.
Thanks Tim. I did not understand at first that these were links to other blogs.