{"id":3792,"date":"2017-08-12T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2017-08-12T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T18:09:09","slug":"divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting caught in the crossfire of divorce has wounded many people. Your life may be a mess because of divorce. You may have a father you don\u2019t know because of the divorce. You may have a mother you don\u2019t understand because of the divorce. You may have had really bad Christmases because of a divorce and really complicated family vacations. You may even say, \u201cI\u2019m never going to get married.\u201d But you don\u2019t have to bear the pain for somebody else\u2019s mistake.<\/p>\n

Jesus died on the cross once. There\u2019s no need for you to do it again.<\/p>\n

Sure, the ultimate and divine purpose of marriage is \u201cuntil death do us part.\u201d But we\u2019re human, and humans mess up. Our failures need not be fatal. Christ has given us a way through this. First, He has restored the sanctity of marriage. Second, through His Spirit, He gives us the grace to live lovingly in a marriage. Through His grace and mercy, He gives us a way to live through our failures. Forgiven and a little wiser, we can move on. Our God is great enough to take the messes of our lives and do something beautiful with them. He\u2019s that good of a God.<\/p>\n

Yes, divorce happens, and yes divorce is a failure, but the grace of God means that our failures or the failure of our parents\u2019 relationship won\u2019t have the last word in our lives. Grace has the last word. It always does.<\/p>\n

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Getting caught in the crossfire of divorce has wounded many people. Your life may be a mess because of divorce. You may have a father you don\u2019t know because of the divorce. You may have a mother you don\u2019t understand because of the divorce. You may have had really bad Christmases because of a divorce…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sunday-school","tag-gray-areas","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecbchurch.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}