Mark Gaither - Redemptive Divorce: A Biblical Process that Offers Guidance for the Suffering Partner, Healing for the Offending Spouse, and the Best Catalyst for Restoration

Thank God for the courage of Mark Gaither.Out of the crucible of his own experience and the grid of Scripture, Mark provides practical direction and encouragement for Christians whose marriages are broken or unbearable.The good news: you dont have to remain passive or suffer in silence anymore.Divorce is an ugly word, but Redemptive Divorce is an assertive plan that enables you to use the courts and the law while still being genuinely Christian.

D AVE C ARDER
Pastor, Counseling Ministries,
First Evangelical Free Church,
Fullerton, CA; Author, Torn
Asunder and Close Calls

Finally, we have some fresh, creative, and practical thinking on an issue that has divided many believers.I appreciate the emphasis that has been given to the individual who is creating the problem rather than putting so much ill-placed responsibility upon the victim.This resource is bound to create some healthy discussion and, hopefully, some changes and perspective within the church.

H.N ORMAN W RIGHT
Author, Professor, and Grief
Trauma Therapist

Ive never read a more sensitive, biblically balanced and carefully researched book than Redemptive Divorce.It will be a source of clarity and inspiration to anyone struggling with the question, How can a Christian divorce? Mark is to be commended; his book is simply brilliant.I only wish it had been written decades ago.

M ARILYN M EBERG
Women of Faith Speaker;
Author, Love Me, Never
Leave Me

2008 Mark W.Gaither

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gaither, Mark W., 1962
Redemptive divorce : a biblical process that offers guidance for the suffering partner, healing for the offending spouse, and the best catalyst for restoration / Mark W.Gaither.
p.cm.
ISBN 978-0-7852-2856-1 (pbk.)
1.DivorceReligious aspectsChristianity.I.Title.
BT707.G35 2008
248.8'46dc22

2008005526

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