Why Are 50% Of Pastors Divorced & 70% Are Depressed

[Dustoftheearth]

Can pastors be divorced? Should a divorced man or woman be permitted to serve as a pastor?

Tit 1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Tit 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Hi John 8:32

That passage applies to 'Elders' not 'pastors'

Pastor/teacher is one of the many gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is not an office of ordained overseer like many seem to claim. Anyone having the gift of pastor/teacher, could become an ordainded Elder if the qualify as above, but an Elder does not have to have the gift of pastor/teacher

 

[Nick]

As for divorced...well, there is a verse about the pastor being a husband of one wife.

Indeed. I think that's Philippians 3.

Not sure that it states that Pastors who have been divorced are disqualified. Agreed that there are qualifiers attached to that Office, and "One Wife" is right. But it does not, for instance, state that a single man who is virgin and has never been married is automatically qualified or disqualified. Regarding 'divorce,' my thought goes to a man who may have been called later in life. So if we may see that the Lord can call a man out of sin and into a place of service and if he had been married? Then as the man responded to God, came then the trial and his wife choose to leave him. He didn't like it, but what could be done?

So there is reason for me to think that 'divorce' in-and-of-itself is not an automatic dis-qualifier or a declaration of his being necessarily unfit for service.

I agree. I was merely providing a reference to what Quest said.

I find that verse a little ambiguous. Obviously it rules out polygamy in that particular office, and on the surface it could rule out men with no wife or men who have divorced and remarried. I'm not sure it means that though.

 

[George Muller]

I agree, I think "ONE" wife is a statement against polygamy, but it does seem fair to ask if a man who has been divorced can rule the Lords house?

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I agree, I think "ONE" wife is a statement against polygamy...

I wonder why folding paper up into interesting shapes would be forbidden for an elder to do? :dunno