Marriage is meant to protect a lifetime of love. The permanence of a husband-wife relationship rests on a covenant of mutual commitment that is designed to survive normal and even serious marital conflict. Sometimes, however, verbal and physical abuse do to a marriage what murder or rape does to a life. What then? What if efforts to save a marriage result in the compounded loss of peace and trust in the home?
In the following pages, Herb Vander Lugt, longtime church pastor and RBC senior research editor, opens the Bible to show that Moses, Jesus, and Paul all recognized that some marital conditions are worse than divorce.
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