aking Marriage Work, confirms that its often emotional distance, not conflict, that determines whether a relationship will flourish or begin to disintegrate" (Johnson, Patz). Every couple fights, but as long as partners can connect emotionally, their relationship should remain healthy.
             What is Marriage? Marriage can be defined as the taking of a husband or wife in a wedlock of intimate unity. Marriage is a commitment of heart and soul. In Genesis 2: 24, God defines marriage as, "a man leaving his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." God's design for marriage is one of commitment and/or covenant (Lester). In Genesis 2 we see how God said, "It is not good for man to be alone."(Gen. 2:18). What God has joined together in the unity of the Spirit is joined together until death parts a couple (Arnold). So God made one woman to be with one man and he joined them together. "Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together," (Matthew 19:6). It is very evident that God intended for marriage to be permanent.
             Even though God hates divorce, "God did not say he hates those who are divorced and neither should we hate them" (Brown). Though God hates divorce, he will also judge every unloving or dead marriage. How many couples have been cold-hearted or loveless to their spouses? And how many couples rather than loving each other merely coexist? True faithfulness is not simply the absence of adultery.
             The attitude of the church towards individuals who are divorced and those that are remarried has primarily been negative. Is it wrong for those in the church not to accept a man as a minister just because he is remarried, should not the concern be whethe
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