Today our encouragement comes from Dr. Taffy Wagner, our in house money expert.
Divorcing from Husband - His Money is in a Ministry Account???
When this question came in to me, I had to do a little research because I had not ever heard of this. A woman is divorcing from her husband and I gather it is not by her choice; however, she has no access to money because his money is in HIS ministry account.
I have never heard of a ministry account before. What I have discovered is that it’s an account for people involved in ministry. It appears to me that this woman’s husband has an account and did not give her access nor did he put her name on the account.
Now I ask you, what is GODly about this behavior? What happened to the Ephesians 5:25-29 where it says, (Amplified Bible) ”
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, 27 That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless]. 28 Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church.
Doesn’t it say in 29, he must nourish, carefully protect and cherish her. So it appears this man is going to leave his wife and possibly kids without financial means to take care of their household. Sure, I don’t know the whole story. Even without knowing the entire story, this does not sound like what Jesus would do!
This saddens me because it is questions like these and situations like this that cause others in the Church to stumble. Because people who are and are not saved are watching how Christian marriages are falling apart based on husbands and wives choices, selfishness and lack of guidance from within the Church.
Recommendation:
(1) The wife needs to take steps to ensure she and her children are provided for.
(2) She needs to do an assessment of what joint accounts they do have.
(3) She also needs to assess the credit cards they have and find out what happens when they get divorced.
(4) If the wife has a joint bank account and no credit card, she should talk with a personal banker about opening her own account and getting a debit card attached to her account.
*This is a time to be honest with yourself and not in denial about your situation.
Dr. Taffy Wilkins Wagner is the author of Debt Dilemma. Debt Dilemma is her own personal story of how she got into debt, was getting food from the food banks and got out of debt without filing bankruptcy.For further details please visit her website at www.marriagemoneymatters.com
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