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The SBC also generally holds that a divorced person is ineligible to be a pastor or deacon, even if the divorce was on permissible grounds or it took place before the person became a Christian.
The SBC also generally holds that a divorced person is ineligible to be a pastor or deacon, even if the divorce was on permissible grounds or it took place before the person became a Christian.
The most recent resolution on the topic, passed at the 2010 Annual Meeting, expressed concern about the alarming divorce rate within SBC congregations, going so far as to state that "[e]ven the most expansive view of the biblical exceptions allowing for divorce and remarriage would rule out many, if not most, of the divorces in our churches" and that the expansion of the rate "has not come through a shift in theological conviction about scriptural teaching on divorce but rather through cultural accommodation".<ref>https://www.sbc.net/resource-library/resolutions/on-the-scandal-of-southern-baptist-divorce/</ref>
===United Methodist===
===United Methodist===