Divorce
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Welcome to Page One that addresses the all too common in today's society, divorce.  In the U.S., approximately 52% of all marriages end up in divorce.  While America leads the world in the number of divorces, many European Countries have near similar divorce statistics.  

From the beginning, marriage was intended to be:

'So long as we both shall live'

 Here is a commonly excepted example of a Wedding Ceremony:

THE CHARGE

 Woman:
Ephesians 5:22-24
"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ
is the Head of the Church, His Body, of which He is
the Savior.  Now as the Church submits to Christ,
so also wives should submit to their husbands in
everything."

(__) you were created to be a helper to (__),
a strength and support to undergird him.
Your sub- mission must be willingly given to him."

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Man:
Ephesians 5:25
"Husbands, love your wives,
just as Christ loved the Church
and gave Himself up for her."

(__) you were created to be a loving leader of
your home and family.  The Lord holds you to be
Responsible at all times for the direction and goals you
set for your family.  Joshua understood this fact well
when he declared;  "as for me and my household, we
will serve the Lord."

THE CEREMONY

Man:
(__) will you have this woman to be your wedded
wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy
estate of marriage?  Will you love her, comfort her,
honour and keep her in sickness and in health; and 
forsaking all others keep yourself only unto her,
so long as you both shall live?
(I WILL)

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Woman:
(__) will you have this man to be your wedded
husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the
holy estate of marriage?  Will you love him, comfort him,
honor, obey and keep him in sickness and in health; and
forsaking all others  keep yourself only unto him,
so long as you both shall live?
(I WILL)

When a man and a woman make these vows, set out to live as husband and wife, end up divorcing, what has gone wrong?  Marriage is a contract before witnesses (including GOD), divorce is the breaking of that contract.  How many people would divorce if they had to pay $1,000,000.00 each in order to break their personal contract?  The answer to that question is impossible to answer, but one thing for sure, people would be much more interested to work out their differences before they divorced one another.