@amigo de christo
To cast out someone is the same as giving up on them. I agree that there are instances where such an action is necessary but when churches and all Christians measure sins individually we won’t find justice, we can only hope to find relief. The instance Paul mentioned, where the son was living with his fathers wife, is directly evil and humiliating towards his father. How can he show up in church, if his son is humiliating him like that, clearly the son and the fathers wife need to be shun/cast out by the church. I don’t agree that remarried people, should be cast out or even homosexuals. Maybe they shouldn’t be members but I think it’s a mistake to shun them, shunning is only for church members who turn out to be imposters.
We need to embrace the sinners and invite them in, regardless of their sin. They already know that they are sinning but real change comes from faith, not from someone telling them that their action is wrong. We will only make disciples if we make room for their journey towards becoming disciples. Let’s not get too busy judging, let’s focus more on controlling our tongues.
People sin with their mouths all the time, but we don’t shun people for that. Freedom of speech and all.
Sin must be corrected . Lambs look out for lambs , we dont just gather with error for the sake of fellowship .
If pastors would actually teach sound doctrine that would have alone helped a great deal .
Then if one is in error let the correction be made . But the problem is most pastors are no longer grave nor preach sound doctrine .
That alone would have been a major help to the church . That alone . Many too are busy lulling their churches to sleep
with songs and shows , and sin is raging wild in the churches and at most all they can say is dont judge just let them be .
Sin and error must be corrected and fast too . When it is known or seen It has to be corrected .
Re read the letter to the corinthians , both letters . See the approach . See how paul also gave them a heads up
to repent , before he had to come and correct . The idea of sin in the church was not good to the early church
they were fast to point to Christ and fast to correct error . I suggest we be the same way .
Lets examine what seeker friendly has done and did to the churches .
They left off correcting . And soon in time began accepting sins and grew only worse .
Wanna know why . Cause when leaven aint purged out , when a church does not mourn and follow the pattern JESUS set
and the apostels set , ITS GONNA LEAVEN .
And leaven indeed they have . This correct not , judge not , DIDNT work out too well , it did exactly what it does .
IT leavens . The easy thing for us all , get back into bibles and really get that pattern dug in deep .
Then we will see a huge difference between how they , meaning the apostels and Christ were , verses HOW todays men are .
And i mean a huge difference will soon be seen . Be encouraged .
But if my son were in error and decided to do something in which the end of that is death , I would have wanted someone to have warned
him NOT TO DO , instead of just being quiet and trying to let him figure it out for himself .
If error or sin is spotted , it must be corrected and fast . Do all for the sake of others . DO all for the good of others .
AND SIN aint good for anyone . Thus correct it and do so asap fast .