Comments on: Painfully named divorce ministries.

By: Jaymie

Jaymie — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:58:23 +0000

I always shift around uncomfortably in my seat when my mom and I are at church and they talk about divorce and how no one should get it. My mom married an abusive man and people at my church think that because God provided my mom with a husband a lot time ago that she should have stuck through it and been a servant – get out of the house, sure, but stay married. My mom feels awful and guilty. We don’t have divorce ministry at our church – just marriage counseling. Alas, they say they forgive divorce but my mom is not feeling the love on that subject. She also very recently realized this whole God-is-important thing, so I’d really like it if the church extended some grace to her.

By: Alleycat

Alleycat — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:31:28 +0000

For those of you who attend a church called Fusion, I have a suggestion for a divorce ministry: Fission. Fusion brings together what fission breaks apart.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:18:01 +0000

I’m on board with the “forgive adultery” ministry as long as there’s a “repent for adultery” ministry right along with it. (Who me, bitter? Never…)

By: Sosleepy

Sosleepy — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:52:07 +0000

The singles/divorce care ministry temporarily had the name "whole in one". It didn't last long.

By: Didn't want mine

Didn't want mine — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:27:07 +0000

He's saying not to divorce, Talia. Like the one's who are suffering "really" wanted one to begin with.

By: Curtis Honeycutt

Curtis Honeycutt — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:13:51 +0000

Our church has a middle school ministry called "Fuse". The high school ministry is "Merge". We often get them mixed up and call them Muse and Ferge.

By: Talia

Talia — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:47:24 +0000

um, what?

By: thoughtriver

thoughtriver — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:46:08 +0000

yikes.

By: Shelli

Shelli — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:02:27 +0000

My former husband, an ex-pastor, turned his back on God after being asked to leave a church. I was pregnant at the time and had a difficult pregnancy, birth and suffered postpartum depression, plus had a terrible auto accident 3 months after my baby was born. It was a miracle my child and I survive. In the midst of this, I was the only one employed, and my husband (at the time) spiraled more and more out of control and became extremely psychologically and emotionally abusive. He left over a year ago for another woman and we are divorced. I found a fabulous single parents Sunday school class at my church where I now have begun serving in different ways. I have gone to counseling at my church and my child and I are walking in freedom. You can't tell me Christians don't need divorce ministries. I did not ask to be betrayed or abused. NO ONE DOES. But Christ brings freedom. That's why we have the ministry. To minister to the broken, to bring true healing.

By: lindseyt

lindseyt — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:49:00 +0000

There are actually 5,840,000 results for “fusion church”. I thought that was pretty hilarious.