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What does it mean for a divorced couple to experience reconciliation? Why should church leaders support such a ministry?

What does it mean for a divorced couple to experience reconciliation?

We were reconciled after a divorce that lasted more than a decade. Speaking from that experience, to have a second chance is absolutely indescribable. When we reconcile a relationship after separation or divorce, we defy the world's odds and confound human wisdom. However, this is just what Christ came to earth to accomplish: that through the forgiveness God offered us in his Son, we might forgive one another.

Every broken marriage has the potential to be healed. Why? Because there is no relationship in such a bleak state of disrepair that it remains beyond God's ability to restore it. Although reconciliation following a crisis, separation, or divorce takes commitment and hard work, it is possible. Each spouse must commit to an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ as his or her top priority. Their focus must be to be reconciled to God first, then to one another. Not only have we experienced the restoration of our own ...

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