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Your Attitude


What is your attitude about divorce?
Program: Real FamilyLife (90 seconds)

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Dennis Rainey: What is your attitude about divorce?

Guest: My wife used to work at a church in California where they had a great divorce recovery program. Her boss was a counselor, and she's just told me people would come out of the office crying all the time. Just the pain they were going through -- the hurt.

Dennis Rainey: A friend of mine was on a plane, flying home, when he started weeping. You see, he had just attended our "I Still Do" event, and realized that his attitude about his own divorce was all wrong. He told me that he had never repented for divorcing his wife. But he did so on that plane. Some in the church need to repent from wrong attitudes about divorce as well. There are people who advise their friends and family members to get a divorce.

That stuns me. You know, many Christians have become complacent about an act that God was very clear about. God said in the book of Malachi, "I hate divorce."

One final thought. If God hates divorce, what should we do about it? I believe we need to begin by changing our minds about divorce. Then we might need to change our counsel that we give others. Our opinion needs to match God's opinion.

I'm Dennis Rainey, and that's Real Family Life.

Date: 11/4/2009 12:00:00 AM

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Anonymous @ 11/3/2009 9:35:30 PM 
We need to align all our thoughts, words, and actions with God's word. It's God's opinion that matters, not ours.
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