After the breakout session in which I’d been told that the men of this country never tell “I’m sorry” to their wives, six or seven guys motioned that they wanted to talk with me.

Their question to me was about divorce and remarriage in the United States.  Was it true, they wanted to know, that divorce and remarriage happened a lot in my country?

“It does,” I told them.  “It does often.”

“Why?” they asked.  “Don’t the people know the Word of God?”

Their concept of our nation is that it is a Christian country.  They couldn’t conceive that Christian people would not know the Word of God.  My first task was to help them understand that ours is not a Christian nation.

“There are many people who are not believers who do not know the Word of God about this,” I said.  “So, they divorce.”

“What about the Christians?  Do they not know the Word of God?”

“Well,” I said, “many of them do.  But they choose not to obey it.  They divorce anyway.”

They shook their heads, unable to comprehend what I’d just said.

I thought about it later.  These guys bow to culture and refuse to admit their need of forgiveness from their wives.  They even play the culture card when it comes to being physically abusive at times to their wives and children.  Most American believers would stand firmly against this, saying, “Don’t they know what God’s Word says?”

But in America, “Christian” men and women are divorcing each other at an alarming rate because, in my opinion, they are also playing the culture card, refusing to do what the Word of God says.

As I wrote in the last post, the Word of God trumps culture every time.  American brothers and sisters, let’s determine to do what it says in regard to our relationships to each other as husbands and wives.  Let’s quit following our culture and live according to the Truth.  And then we’ll be in a position to pray for our brothers and sisters in this country that they will do the same.