Today’s topic is a very challenging one, but a necessary one. Divorce. You know, divorce is the deepest hurt I have ever, ever known. And yet, sometimes it feels like the hurt of divorce is not always tolerated, certainly not understood. But I’ll say, I’ve started to see a shift. One of those shifts happened when I was speaking at a church in Dallas.
And the pastor said to me after asking me, we were doing a Q&A. After asking me several questions, he asked me, “Lisa, what do you wish the church knew about divorce?” And that meant so much to me. I literally had tears in my eyes because no one had ever asked me that question before.
You know, there’s so much hurt out there around this topic and I wish with all my heart that I did not have any kind of experiential wisdom to offer, but I do. And so together, Jim, Dr. Joel, together, we want to be a source of connection for you and especially if you find yourself in this place or you know someone who is walking through an unwanted divorce.
Right from the beginning of this new season of episodes, I want to make sure that it’s not our words, but God’s words that are our starting place. As we look at God’s truth, we don’t want to use his truth to be the proof of some kind of agenda that we bring to the topic of divorce. Instead, we want to take an honest look at what the Bible says and does not say about this very delicate topic.
Like we always say on Therapy and Theology, we don’t want to tell you what to think. We want to give you a lot to think about and even beyond that we want to give you things to talk about less from an opinionated point of view and much more from an informed point of view. So, can we all just agree right now that we are going to set aside our agenda that maybe we brought to this episode and we’re going to try to go straight to the text, not to prove or disprove anything, >> but just to find out what does God’s word actually say about this topic.
