Divorce: Ministers

3012. Any person sustaining a marriage relation contrary to the Scriptures and the Guides and Helps to Holy Living (265:5–7; 410:5–6; 3108) shall be ineligible for licensing, commissioning, or ordination in The Wesleyan Church. 3108. Any minister who enters into a marriage relationship contrary to the Scriptures and to those expositions of Scripture as set forth in the Guides to Helps and Holy Living (265:5-7; 410:5-6), after having been ordained, commissioned, or licensed, shall be dismissed from ministerial standing, provided that guilt shall be established in accord with the judicial processes (Gen. Bd. Policy on Ch. Disc. 5206-5212). 3111. In performing marriages, Wesleyan ministers shall not unite in marriage any person who is divorced, unless such divorce and remarriage is in keeping with the Scriptures and the Guides to Helps and Holy Living (265:5-7). In carrying out this duty, the minister shall be guided by the principles set forth in 410:6.