DAMAGE FROM CHURCH REMARRIAGE OF DIVORCEES
By Julian Mann, Cranmer's Curate
Following pastoral reorganisation, St Winifred's by the Tandoori has been amalgamated into the Winklesfield Team Ministry.
Clergy and readers are now licensed to the Team, which has adopted a standard policy across its churches of offering the full marriage service for divorcees.
When St Winifred's had its own vicar, he used to offer a service of dedication after civil marriage – provided the bride or groom had nothing to do with the break-up of the previous marriage.
Mr Smith married his second wife at St Winifred's shortly after the change in policy. The younger woman he has just run off with wants a traditional white wedding at St Winifred's. The Revd Jezebel Jones told the Team Rector that it would be 'discriminatory' to deny the bride her dream. He heartily agreed.
But down at the post office 'that womaniser Smith's leading 'em up the church path' was the consensus of opinion.
The tragic reality is that St Winifred's, once a parish church with a reputation for orthodoxy on Christian faith and morals, has now become a scandal for the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's damaging His cause.
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