Rewind: Does Divorce Disqualify One for Leadership?

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Divorce and the Meaning of “One-Woman Man”

We got a question in this week asking the question of, can pastors and deacons be qualified if they've been divorced? This comes out of 1 Timothy 3 .2 and 1 Timothy 3 .12, which refers to a qualification of a husband being of one wife.

Now, in the Greek, this is literally a one-woman man. It talks about the characteristic of the husband, whether he has eyes only for his wife. Now, those that want to use this to say divorce, well, does this, if it means one wife for life, exclude divorce?

Well, actually, no, it doesn't. Because you can be divorced and never remarry and still only have one wife. But what it will exclude is a widower. If a person has a wife who dies and then he remarries, he would then no longer be qualified as a pastor, if that's the meaning of this.

What did he do that's a sin that would disqualify him? No, the reality is that people are trying to address the issue of remarriage, but you can be divorced and still have only one wife. So, this is talking about the characteristic of a husband's attitude or view of his wife, not the number of wives he has, because it would exclude widowers when they've done no sin.

It also would not have anything to do with divorce, because you could be divorced, never remarry, and you wouldn't be, according to their view that holds to this, you'd be able to be qualified. And that's not what they want to hold.

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