SHOULD SOME MARRIED FOLKS BE DISFELLOWSHIPPED? (Divorce and Remarriage in a Few Minutes)

Posted on June 21, 2021July 30, 2022 by WLPublications

MDR: Is remarriage after divorce a fellowship issue?

The politically correct mistakenly see divorce and remarriage as a fellowship matter. They cite 1 Corinthians 5:1-7 to support their view:

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.You have become arrogant, and have not mourned instead…that the one who had done this deed might be removed from your midst. For I…have already judged him who has… committed this. In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled…with the power of our Lord Jesus, I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump…”

Why is this not a model for dealing with certain marriages?

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G. C. BREWER ON DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE, Part 2

Posted on February 11, 2017February 13, 2020 by WLPublications

Brewer believed the guilty party could remarry: “If the ‘innocent party’ can marry again, can the ‘guilty party’ be forgiven of this guilt? If he is forgiven, can he marry again? If not, is he forgiven? How is he forgiven if he is punished for life for his sin?” ¹ Brewer held that splitting up marriages and families was wrong:

G. C. BREWER ON DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE, Part 1

Posted on February 11, 2017February 13, 2020 by WLPublications

Grover Cleveland Brewer was among the most influential ministers in the churches of Christ from the early to mid-1900s. He served congregations in Chattanooga, Winchester, Memphis, and Columbia, Tennessee, Austin, Cleburne, Lubbock, and Sherman, Texas, as well as Los Angeles, California. His final years were spent editing the Voice of Freedom. His books include The Model Church, Brewer’s Sermons, Contending for the Faith, As Touching Those Who Were Once Enlightened, and Forty Years on the Firing Line.¹ Brewer’s achievements were recognized outside the church when he was awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal. His work as Gospel Advocate’s “Queries” editor is well-remembered.