One Sunday evening, the reality of this kind of violence struck home for me. I had preached on this passage at a large church in the Southeast. At the end of the service, hundreds of adults flooded to the front. Many were sobbing. I assumed that these were penitent husbands and wives who had divorced and wanted to find healing, but I was entirely mistaken. Without exception, every person pressing forward for prayer and comfort was an adult child of parents who had divorced. The pain in that group was overwhelming. Their injuries, some sustained in family breakups years and even decades before,
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