I remember the first time that I had a doctor’s appointment after my divorce. I was filling out the intake form and it got to the part where they were asking for an emergency contact and I sat there in that doctor’s office and wept. It was a moment that to everyone else filling out an intake form was so completely normal.
But for me, it was the first time I realized this divorce meant I’d lost my person. Like really, really lost my person. And I didn’t know who to put down as my emergency contact. Today’s subject is hard. Um, just like the first episode in this series, we’re tackling divorce again. And this these episodes are not just for those of you who are walking or who have walked through a divorce.
It’s also for any Christian or anyone that knows someone that has gone through a divorce. So, I want us to lean in because in the last episode, we tackled an Old Testament verse from Malachi. In this episode, I want to go to the New Testament verses that can also be confusing around the subject matter of divorce. And of course, joining me is my amazing therapy friend Jim Crest and Dr. Joel Moodal.
>> That’s right. Well, I’m really excited for uh this one. And honestly, I feel a little bit of the weight of this conversation because uh today we’re looking at Matthew chapter 19. And um the last episode we looked at some Old Testament passages. We’ll do that a little bit as well this time. But the reason why it’s a little more weighty for me on this is because we’re talking about Jesus’s words here.
This is an actual encounter that Jesus has where Jesus talks about this topic. And in some of your Bibles, you might have the red letters kind of scenario happening. And so this is like the red letter Jesus that we’ve got going on. Um before we jump into this, I just want to give a disclaimer from our hearts, from Jim’s heart, from Lisa’s, and from mine.
And I just want to read something that um we’ve kind of put together. Um I just want to make sure that um these conversations uh that you are hearing that you know that they come from a place of deep humility. You see, um, the three of us co-authored a book together, surviving an unwanted divorce. And it’s not meant to glorify divorce in any way.
