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"Only certain sins warrant public and formal church discipline, namely, sins that are unrepentant, outward, and significant"

By Jim on Tue, 11/22/16
Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism
Church Discipline

“only certain sins warrant public and formal church discipline, namely, sins that are unrepentant, outward, and significant.”

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Bert Perry

NewOutward and significant.....

Tue, 11/22/16

….seems to describe the after-affects of gluttony pretty well. One might joke about a church revival of repentance from gluttony involving a guillotine….just for the enormous beer potluck pot blessing guts we see instead of our heads, I hope.

Seriously, read and appreciated the article. They make a good point that if indeed we are practicing Matthew 18:15-19 correctly, we will only have a good idea of motives as the process proceeds, and sometimes not at all. Judging motives can be very, very dangerous business.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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