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Originally Posted by Terry
Their actions suggest as much as they love their wives, love for the ministry supersedes their love for their wife.
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The LRC program, for many brothers, went to the very core of their own identity as people. Though they may truly love their wives and families, that marriage and family may not define who they are. The attachment they feel for the ministry and the church may actually supersede their attachment to their wife. I witnessed many brothers who were often encouraged just to do the minimal necessary to keep their wives "contented."
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Originally Posted by Terry
How many marriages disintegrated not because of infidelity, another unmentionable sin, but over preference of ministry. This is that something that came between the marriage covenant.
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Let's reword this question another way, one I have considered before. How many brothers (or sisters) in the church, perhaps without even consciously considering it, actually sought out affections from another woman (or man,) who was not their spouse, as a part of a total exit strategy?
Our pitiful flesh, when confined by the chains of religion traditions and legalistic regulations will often seek freedom, regardless of the consequences. The power of fear only works so long.