Is The Church Partially Responsible for the Breakup of the Home?

About the Book

All one has to do today is pick up any religious book or magazine, listen to sermon topics, notice the number of seminars and counseling sessions on the family to know that our families are in deep trouble. The question is why?

George Barna has reported that families are epidemically being destroyed by divorce. The tragedy is that those who call themselves conservative are more likely to get a divorce than those who claim very little religious background. Although there are many different types of Baptist, Barna points out in his study that Baptists are at the top of the list when it comes to those getting divorced.

As a Southern Baptist pastor for nearly fifty years, I am alarmed at the number of members, as well as pastors and religious leaders in my own denomination who take a very humanistic world view of divorce and remarriage.

If those who conduct seminars, counselors, pastors, and denominational leaders have a humanistic world view of marriage rather than a biblical world view, how can they help curb the rise of divorce? It seems, that is to me, that the problem is having bandaids applied rather than radical surgery.

Years ago, in our seminaries and in denominational areas, the scriptures began to be compromised when it came to the permanency of marriage. As a result, this compromise was accepted by many pastors and brought to our churches.

About the Author

Dr. and Mrs. Benenhaley (Nina) have been married for fifty-five years. They have three sons, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Dr. Eleazer Benenhaley has been a Southern Baptist pastor for almost fifty years. He has pastored churches in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. In 2002, he retired from the Sweetwater Baptist Church in North Augusta, South Carolina after twenty-one years. He is now pastor of the Red Hill Baptist Church in Edgefield, South Carolina. Dr. Benenhaley has held numerous positions in the Baptist State Conventions and Associations. In 1992, he wrote the lessons for Discipleship Training for the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a graduate of the Clear Creek Baptist School (College), Cumberland College, Southeastern Baptist Seminary, and Southern Seminary.

His book, Is The Church Partially Responsible For The Breakup Of The Home? is an attempt to show how society has taken A Humanistic World View of Marriage rather than a Biblical World View!