Divorce and child custody disputes often involve a complex combination of legal, financial, relational and spiritual issues. Biblical peacemaking and Christian conciliation are often helpful in these types of cases. Conciliators do not provide professional legal or financial advice, but they are often able to help parties make progress on relational and spiritual issues by applying the principles of relational wisdom and biblical peacemaking. Sometimes this process opens the door for repentance and reconciliation and cancels the desire for a divorce. Even if reconciliation does not occur, conciliation can make it easier for parties to resolve other issues more reasonably and without a prolonged adversarial process.
When people contact RW360 for assistance with a failing marriage, we encourage them to read through the following materials, asking God to help them and their church leaders find ways to apply these principles to heal their marriage.
- Resurrecting a Dead Relationship
- Hope for Troubled Marriages
- The Impact of Divorce on Children
- Articles on Divorce and Remarriage
- How to Resurrect a Dead Relationship
- The Best Way to Rewrite History
- Three Qualities that Improve Every Relationship
- Transformed
- A SOG Confession
- The Myths of Divorce
- How Churches Can Preserve and Heal Marriages
- Peacemaking and Abuse
If these articles inspire you to continue working to save your marriage, we encourage you to seek individual or joint counseling from your pastor or a Christian counselor in your community, such as someone who has been trained through the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation. If you need conciliation assistance beyond this type of pastoral care or counseling, please go to this page to learn more about RW360’s conciliation services.
~ Ken Sande