Subject: Deacon/Pastor divorced before saved |
Bible Note: Hi Country Girl, I attend a Baptist church and they are pretty conservative. We have decons in our church that have been divorced and remarried and another decon that married a divorced woman. Now I ask one of the elderly ladies in our church who sets the standard of being a Godly woman and she said that what a person does before they are saved is not important because God forgives all our sins. Now these decons got saved and joined the church after their marital mistakes if you will. So she is of the opinion that it is what you do after salvation that counts. She said you can't go back and "unscrambled eggs". Our church allows divorced or widowed men to be on the deacon board but, they have to be a member of the church for one year. What church are you affilated with and what is your general feeling on this. I am not sure how I feel about this because the bible doesn't say if you've been married before etc. And I might ask what if the decon marries a woman that was divorced? |