Divorce among Christian Couples is getting Worrisome – Bishop

We live in a generation where most ladies no longer believe in respecting their man, it seems this is actually more rampant in Lagos because of the faulty ideas of "equal rights" with men. In fact some girls go into marriage these days with the intent of divorcing their husband as soon as they meet any rich man who is ready to leave his wife because of them. Shame has been thrown to the gutters!

As a result of this mess, the presiding Bishop of the Eastern West Africa Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Bishop Michael Frencher, has described as alarming, the rate at which young Christian couples divorce in Nigeria today.

Frencher stated this while speaking at the second anniversary celebration of the City Light Family, a group within the Bishop White African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Bishop said to minimize the rate of divorce among Christians today, there is need to inculcate further Christian virtues in the families.

The cleric said, “The only thing that needs to be done to minimise divorce among young Christian couples in Nigeria and elsewhere is to inculcate Christian virtues on families. The issue is that in marriage, you are not looking at the right person; you are trying to become the right person because it is the sacrifice you make towards the family that keeps it going.

"There is no perfect being but your ability to understand and work with the wisdom of God to keep the family and that is the virtue that should be inculcated in the youths of today, so that divorce rate will be minimal. They (couples) should take marriage seriously and respect it because it is God’s holy institution."