Divorce & Remarriage
Below are notes that I took to serve as a book summary for David Instone Brewer's book, Divorce and Remarriage In The Church. The second PDF has all of the references from the Kindle edition. Here is a description of the book:
Will God allow me to divorce my abusive husband? Would it be a sin if I remarried? Divorce and remarriage are major pastoral issues facing every church. Yet when we turn to Scripture for guidance, we often hear conflicting messages about its teachings. David Instone-Brewer shows how, when properly understood, the New Testament provides faithful, realistic and wise guidance of crucial importance and practical help for the church today.
After having read this book and studied the Scriptures thoroughly myself I was asked to preach a message on this subject matter at New Hope Assembly of God on April 26, 2015. Click here to watch or listen to the sermon online. You can find the message about 15 minutes into the service. My preaching notes, an illustration to help clarify the various perspectives on divorce in the first century and the Power Point presentation make up the final three documents below. Here is the description that Pastor Lance O'Brien wrote up after I had the pleasure of preaching at his church:
How should the church council those who have gone through or are going through a divorce? Special guest Pastor David Kennard speaks from 1 Corinthians 7 on this topic. What are the grounds for divorce? Find out here!
Will God allow me to divorce my abusive husband? Would it be a sin if I remarried? Divorce and remarriage are major pastoral issues facing every church. Yet when we turn to Scripture for guidance, we often hear conflicting messages about its teachings. David Instone-Brewer shows how, when properly understood, the New Testament provides faithful, realistic and wise guidance of crucial importance and practical help for the church today.
After having read this book and studied the Scriptures thoroughly myself I was asked to preach a message on this subject matter at New Hope Assembly of God on April 26, 2015. Click here to watch or listen to the sermon online. You can find the message about 15 minutes into the service. My preaching notes, an illustration to help clarify the various perspectives on divorce in the first century and the Power Point presentation make up the final three documents below. Here is the description that Pastor Lance O'Brien wrote up after I had the pleasure of preaching at his church:
How should the church council those who have gone through or are going through a divorce? Special guest Pastor David Kennard speaks from 1 Corinthians 7 on this topic. What are the grounds for divorce? Find out here!
| divorce___remarriage.pdf |
| divorce_and_remarriage_-_david_instone-brewer.pdf |
| no_perfect_people_allowed_-_part_8.pdf |
| no_perfect_people_allowed_-_part_8.pptx |
| jewish_rabbis_-_perspectives_on_divorce.docx |