I was thinking of asking about this a few days ago when Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert's divorce hit the news. Is divorce and remarriage a bigger plague than homosexuality, one that we come face to face with every day in our own families and churches?
** What are Christians to do who have divorced from their first spouse, re-married and started new families?
** Are they guilty of adultery -- from which the only repentance would be to separate and remain single, or reconcile their first marriage?
** Is there room for grace, or is a believer living in deliberate daily sin by being married to someone other than their original spouse?
It's a question that needs asked, because it's not addressed as much as other prominent sins that have made headlines. Jesus was pretty clear that aside from the exception clause of unfaithfulness, one can't simply walk away, divorce on a whim and marry another. It is also clear that many believers claim grace and forgiveness of past mistakes and bad decisions. We know that none are perfect and all are subject to sin as long as we are in these earthly bodies. Yet in Christ, we are not condemned, even if the flesh and its desires remain imperfect.
