A Reader’s Response

In this article, VanGaalen responds to Jay Adams’s article “What is She to Do?” from JPP 10:2 on the topic of domestic abuse. VanGaalen argues that 1 Corinthians 7 legitimates a state of “separated, but open to genuine reconciliation” between two believers in “extreme and chronic situations” of physical abuse, drug or alcohol addiction or financial irresponsibility. VanGaalen concludes his response by illustrating what this principle would look like in a situation of abuse, addiction or financial irresponsibility.