Advocate Disciple Include Lead Witness Worship Summary of RCA Statements on Divorce and Remarriage The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America issued statements on divorce and remarriage in 1962 and 1975.
Divorce involves sin.
When, on the other hand, the church sets aside institutional considerations and the general welfare for the sake of individual welfare, she stands to lose her sense of direction and degenerate into maudlin and ineffectual sentimentality. Her prophetic voice is lost. The decision as to how properly to weigh institutional factors against personal factors when they conflict becomes knotty, indeed. It usually becomes a matter of choosing the lesser evil. Love and fidelity are to be learned of Christ through the Word.