Read Part One HERE
In this post I will continue my brief series of posts on John Street, the Head of Counseling at The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS), which is attached to Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, California, pastored by John MacArthur.
John Street: "Is it wrong for a wife to separate from her husband, or for that matter, for a husband to separate from an unbelieving wife? Yes, if her goal and purpose is to just simply get out of trouble, I think it's wrong."
John Street: "Her goal must first be to please God. She needs to be with him or her needs to be with her, in order to win their spouse over to righteousness. Sometimes it means hardship. Sometimes it means abuse.This is always the risk...."
John Street offers one exception: "If a husband has convincingly shown he is "out to kill" his wife and the church government has been "brought in to play," then separation is allowed, for "a dead testimony is no testimony at all."
John Street: "The way you win over your husband is not by putting "repent" in the bottom of his beer can. It is without a word. You don't win him over by lecturing him into righteousness. That is not the way you win him over. And in the context of 1 Peter 3:1, the husband is an unbeliever, who is being harsh and mistreating his wife."
My Comment
The above counsel is very dangerous for God never asks a wife to remain with a husband in the case of abuse. His view of God is not in line with Scripture where God describes Himself as the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness (Eodus 34:6).
Read Part Four HERE
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