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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
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Subject: A divorced pastor in ministry? |
Bible Note: Raul You make a good case but let me add that verse 4 says this same person must manage his household well. I contend that a divorce shows the household was not always managed well. Now I will concede that a case can be made for a man to have made a mistake and then after some period of time learned to manage his household to the point there would be no further divorce. But this would only be true after many years of faithful service and growing within his life. Today we see men and women divorce and many step right back into the pulpit saying everything is fine. Further your assertion that there are many other Greek words that could have been used there brings me to a point I was trying to make many months ago. Paul used this particular term for a reason and reason was not to make room for divorce (God hates divorce) but rather to insure the man was in fact married and biblically pure. Jesus clearly taught that to divorce and remarry unless the covenant of marriage was broken by adultery had the married person living in adultery. I believe the only divorced person that could fit the standard in 1 Tim 3 would be a person that was divorced and remarried before their salvation. EdB |