A growing consensus Those attitudes toward extramarital affairs seem to be infecting the church. As one said of our own time, ‘I looked for the church and found it in the world, and when I looked for the world I found it in the church.’ How shall those who guide the church respond to this present crisis? The contemporary church has responded to this problem in a number of ways. It is relatively easy to outline these responses even though they vary in manner and application. In this chapter we will