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Much injustice has been done to the body of Christ because of religious prejudice and the improper interpretation of Scriptures. As a result, many divorced or remarried Christians have suffered needlessly from discrimination, loneliness, guilt, and shame.

I recently heard of a pastor who resigned from his church just because he and his wife had divorced. Even though the cause of the divorce was his former wife's adultery, the pastor said he still had to resign because "he did not want to bring reproach to the ministry!"

What reproach?

If there was any reproach; it should have been upon the wife who committed the adultery, and certainly not upon the innocent and faithful husband!

And what a waste!

The pastor had obviously spent many years in study and prayer, and his ministry experience could have been useful to the body of Christ! Why should he be forced to get a secular job just because of something his ex-wife had done?

Another person that I knew personally also suffered much injustice as well. Even though her former husband had remarried, she was told at her Bible College that she could never marry as long as he was still alive! At first she believed this lie because she still had suppressed feelings of guilt from her failed marriage.

Later, she met and fell in love with a single Christian man who had never been married before. She then began to question what she had been taught, and did her own Bible study. Because her former husband had remarried, she believed that she should be free to marry again, but her pastor refused to perform the ceremony!

Eventually they did find a pastor who was willing to "take a chance" and let them have a church wedding. After they were married they joined a different church, but the discrimination continued! Just because one of them had now been divorced and remarried, they were BOTH forever banned from holding any leadership positions in the church!

Many other Christians have also suffered needlessly just because they were once divorced. Sometimes gossip is spread around the church that divorced people are either sexually promiscuous or "much greater sinners," so they should be avoided!

Those who have remarried are persecuted even more! In the Roman Catholic Church they are refused Holy Communion! In many Protestant churches they are refused positions of leadership as pastors, teachers, or deacons! Some are even refused permission to sing in the choir! In a few extreme cases, they are even denied church membership!

In short, divorced Christians in the church are often treated by fellow Christians as second class citizens in the Kingdom of God! In this book, I have therefore tried to answer every possible question a person might ask about marriage, divorce, and remarriage. It is my intention to make the interpretation of Scripture so clear that the reader will never again be bound by the legalistic "traditions of men!"