If not marriage, then not divorce.

Because of the resurrection, we always have reason to hope.   Really hope.  This hope keeps us from despair and prompts us to look for solutions to complex problems.  We love a recent post //www.desiringgod.org/articles/when-two-so-called-married-women-or-men-repent  by John Piper on the problems the church will need to deal with when thousands come to Christ out of same-sex relationships.

In the years to come, God will be merciful on thousands of those who have been damaged by the present moral madness of our culture. He will exalt Christ in the conversion of many who have lived in same-sex relationships. More complexities than we can imagine will be presented to us in the church.

John Piper then goes on to give guidance on how the church should respond.  The following is one among 13 points.

. Help them see, therefore, that what the state has called a “marriage” between them is not marriage. There is no such thing as “same-sex marriage” in God’s eyes. Therefore, they are not married in the sight of God, regardless of how the state defines their relationship. Do not embrace the state’s prostitution of language by calling the former state “marriage” or the ending of it “divorce.”