Jay Adams, the author of multiple books on Christian counseling, takes on the thorny subject of divorce. This book starts with an overview of the Biblical idea of marriage, including careful consideration of the idea of of one flesh, and God's original design for human relationship. While we tend to think of the focus of marriage as sexual union or producing children, the author shows that companionship is actually the primary purpose. This foundation has a major impact on the reasoning he applies to divorce and remarriage later in the remaining sections of the book. The next section of the book discusses divorce in detail. There is a chapter covering a Biblical attitude towards divorce, a definition of divorce, then divorce between an unbeliever and a believer, and divorce between two believers. The most interesting sections here are the coverage of who the two groups are in 1 Corinthians 7 and the section on the origin of divorce for sexual sin. In the third and final section, the author deals with remarriage, taking on the idea that once a believer divorces, they cannot, ever, remarry. The author exposes this as an unsound and an Biblical idea. There are some logical inconsistencies here, primarily in relation to how the Church should treat people who have been divorced. A great deal of emphasis is placed on the taking apart the idea that a one woman man, excludes those who are divorced holding leadership positions in the Church, but the author then goes on to give an example of a man being denied a leadership position in a church because of a past divorce. Since Mr. Adams has spent so much time discussing each specific Scripture involved, and dealing with the social and Scriptural basis behind each idea, it's a bit odd that he would spend a couple of pages detailing why, in the end, none of this matters, and the Church should refuse to allow people with a divorce in their past into leadership positions. The author comes a long way towards treating divorce as another sin, and not some super horrible sin with consequences that will follow a person for all of eternity, including his discussion on the entire point of marriage, and placing emphasis on the grace of Christ. That he feels he must put this one sop towards current social practice and legalism into his writing shows how strongly our Church culture hangs on to divorce and remarriage as single purpose fruit by which the Church may determine the seriousness of a person's walk. The author provides a much better gauge for church leadership in the case of people with divorce in their past with his discussion concerning how a leader must be above reproach. This book is generally well balanced, and well written. It's worth reading for the average lay person to come to grips with, and understand, the issues involved in this contentious and difficult issue.