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1 | What do you think? | Luke 6:42 | nomad1 | 144863 | ||
a young unmarried couple were renting a house from the church. the young man attended this church regularly. he was also encouraging his girlfriend to come with him. The church had a vote and decided that they had to move. the preacher came alone and told them to get married or move. The church did not pray for this couple and noone from the church came to invite the young lady to church. In fact, this was the only time the pastor had been to their home. He told them that their sin was the number one sin greater even than murder. The preacher did ask the young man to come back to church but he no longer feels welcome and my question is this if he is not welcome in one house, why is he welcome in another. Both houses are Gods | ||||||
2 | What do you think? | Luke 6:42 | prayon | 144864 | ||
Greetings, What you say is very sad. Too many of God's churches judge others which is exactly what Jesus told us not to do. Many do it because of what their appearance looks like, some for other reasons. It sounds as if this is what happened at this church. For whatever reason the church judged this man and found him unworthy of going to their church. The reason he is welcome in another church is because the newer church is not judging him. We are told to hate the sin but love the sinner. Because many churches don't too many people are "run out of church" and never return because of the past experience, thus keeping them out of church and away from a relationship with God. Hope this helps. prayon |
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3 | What do you think? | Luke 6:42 | EdB | 144867 | ||
Prayon Let me ask you one question, how long should a church allow a person to attend 'member in good standing' unchallenged when the person is in open and unrepented sin? If the church had done nothing could it have been seen as contributing to or enabling the sin to continue? Unless sinners are made to confront their sin they may never repent. I don't see anywhere that scripture tells us not to judge, it does caution us about being hypocritical and applying one standard for ourselves and another for everyone else. If a person is running an abortion clinic out of the house should the church allow it. How about a training center for terrorists? How about a house of ill repute? Was it all about appearance and I do think appearance should play some part, “Don’t let you good be spoken evil of” but it is also allowing or actually helping the sin to be committed. The couple as I understand it was given two options. One, stop sinning (by getting married) or two, continue sinning but move out. Clearly if they had repented of their sin and corrected the situation the church was more than willing to allow them to remain in the house. So forgiveness was available to them. EdB |
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4 | What do you think? | Luke 6:42 | Searcher56 | 144881 | ||
Verse 43 continues "For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit." ... continue reading the CONTEXT. We do judge. Also read the similar passage in Matthew 7 ... we judge who are hogs and dogs. The church in Cornith FAILED to judge and Paul judged them for it (1 Cor 5). If we fail to speak up and out - may be the ones w/o rights. | ||||||