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==Denominational positions==
==Denominational positions==
Most Protestant churches permit divorce, but encourage marriage counseling services or pastoral discussion first to save a marriage, saving divorce as a last resort. Sometimes the local pastor has exclusive authority over the marital business of his church, with only minimal policymaking from above. Most [[conservative]] [[Protestantism|Protestant]] denominations restrict divorce to one or two conditions, and allow remarriage in the case of the innocent victim. Liberal denominations tend to allow or advocate lesser restraints. Their position statements on such often lack substance.
Most Protestant churches permit divorce, but encourage marriage counseling services or pastoral discussion first to save a marriage, saving divorce as a last resort. Sometimes the local pastor has exclusive authority over the marital business of his church, with only minimal policymaking from above. Most [[conservative]] [[Protestantism|Protestant]] denominations restrict divorce to specified conditions (generally cases of abandonment, abuse, or adultery), and allow remarriage in the case of the innocent victim. Liberal denominations tend to allow or advocate lesser restraints. Their position statements on such often lack substance.
===Assemblies of God===
===Assemblies of God===
:Persons who remarry after being divorced on other than scriptural grounds are guilty of adultery (Matthew 5:32). A Christian clergyman should not perform such marriages.<ref>[http://www.cmalliance.org/about/beliefs/perspectives/divorce Divorce and Remarriage]</ref>
:Persons who remarry after being divorced on other than scriptural grounds are guilty of adultery (Matthew 5:32). A Christian clergyman should not perform such marriages.<ref>[http://www.cmalliance.org/about/beliefs/perspectives/divorce Divorce and Remarriage]</ref>
===Churches of Christ===
Churches of Christ generally hold to a very strict view on this issue: not only do they permit it only in limited cases, they require that a married person who was divorced prior to the current marriage must divorce the current spouse and return to the former spouse if s/he is alive, or agree to remain unmarried if the former spouse is married or refuses to remarry, even if the divorce took place before becoming a Christian.
===Evangelical Lutheran===
===Evangelical Lutheran===