Reclaiming the broken home: assimilating the divorced into the church

Glenn Alan Griffis

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Reclaiming the broken home: assimilating the divorced into the church

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Glenn Alan Griffis. Reclaiming the Broken Home: Assimilating the Divorced Into the Church. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4c829665-9763-4b63-8084-5a535d36ec89.

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G. A. Griffis. Reclaiming the broken home: assimilating the divorced into the church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4c829665-9763-4b63-8084-5a535d36ec89

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Glenn Alan Griffis. Reclaiming the Broken Home: Assimilating the Divorced Into the Church. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4c829665-9763-4b63-8084-5a535d36ec89.

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Glenn Alan Griffis

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Abstract

This project is an attempt to analyze and understand the experience of divorced Christians in the evangelical church in the United States, and to provide a model to restore them to spiritual vitality, to a healthy experience of community in the local church, and to Christian service, regardless of the local church's theology of divorce. A ministry model is developed based on the author's experience of an unusually high number of divorces in a church where he served; an analysis of biblical teaching on marriage, divorce, and remarriage; interviews with divorced Christians active in local churches; interviews with pastors and parachurch workers who have experience counseling the divorced; and research in the field. The development of the model also drew from an analysis of a local parachurch divorce recovery ministry and from research on the social and psychological impact of divorce on the church. Several misconceptions are revealed about the divorce experience, social consequences, and ministry to the divorced. Outlines are used to develop a paradigm for ministry to the divorced and remarried that can be used by evangelical churches with varying theological assumptions about divorce, as well as by churches of varying sizes.

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