Many have suffered spiritual damage because of the tendency of some in the Lord’s church to obsess over the marriages of others. Consider three examples which have recently come to my attention.
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A Christian was going through a divorce. Her mother tried to persuade a preacher to take the daughter’s side. He refused and wisely told her, “An outsider can’t know what went on behind the closed doors of a marriage.” Sensible people know that is true. Paul wrote, “Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (2 Cor. 13:1). Even when there are “witnesses,” it is not always possible to determine if they are accurate. David wrote, “False witnesses have risen against me” (Ps. 27:12). Proverbs says, “A false witness breaths out lies” (Prov. 14:5, ESV). Preachers who meddle in the marriages of others may take the wrong side and end up justifying the wicked and condemning the righteous, both of which are an abomination to God (Prov. 17:15).
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Glaucoma is an eye disease that, if untreated, causes tunnel vision, which keeps the sufferer from observing what is in his periphery. A sufferer discerns only what is before his eyes. When a studious Christian can’t see the nuances on the “sides” of his spiritual perception, he has spiritual “tunnel vision.” The eye disease strikes a few. Yet it seems that Christians have spiritual tunnel vision. The Bible, a vast ocean, and not eye pressure is the cause.
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