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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

This church believes that marriage is a sacred and divinely instituted  relationship and is to be  entered into solemnly. We believe that God intends  marriage to last until one spouse dies. It is reserved  exclusively as a relationship between one man and one woman, who are brought together by God and joined  together for life. We reject all counterfeit relationships, including domestic partnerships and so-called  same-sex  “marriage.”

God disapproves of and forbids  divorce. We believe that divorce is always a sin, and never sanctioned,  encouraged or endorsed by God. However, it is a sin that can be forgiven when  properly repented of and  confessed, and those who are divorced should not be  treated as second class people, though they may bear  the consequences of their  sin. Although divorced and remarried persons or divorced persons may hold  positions  of service in the church (upon confession and repentance) and be  greatly used of God for Christian service,  they may not be considered for the
offices of pastor or deacon. We further believe that while divorce is never  sanctioned by God, He has, in His mercy, provided a means of temporary  separation so that the  parties involved may work on rebuilding their  relationship and seeking to regain their marital union  in wholeness. Such  separation should be entered into only as a last resort after all other Biblical measures  have failed.

In addition, we affirm the teaching of Scripture  that no divorced person is free to remarry, and that any marriage to a divorced person is expressly forbidden by God.

(Genesis 2:24, 25; Malachi 2:14-17; Matthew 19:1-12; Mark 10:1-12; Rom. 7:1-3; Ephesians 5:22-33; 1 Cor. 7; 1 Tim. 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6)

​We believe that God has commanded that no inappropriate intimacy—sexual or otherwise— be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.  We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one  woman.
 
(Gen. 2:24; Gen. 19:5, 13; Gen. 26:8-9; Lev. 18:1-30; Rom. 1: 26-29; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22-23; 1 Thess. 4:1-8; Heb. 13:4)

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