Who is more holy?

[OGIA]

Originally Posted by Felicity

What Guy is saying is he might have thrown out the wheat that looked like a tare and in so doing the person might have been destroyed.

Instead he let him remain in the church even though he wasn't doing right in hopes that somewhere along the way he'd mature and grow and become obedient to the will of God.

What if he'd thrown him out of the church?

What Guy really said was that the guy was "a pain". I see no directive for "pains" in Paul's writings. Again, I'm talking about persistent, known, scripturally-confronted sin. We can justify letting them sit on the pews all we want, but there is recourse for these types of "saints". I think most churches just choose to let them continue warming the pew (maybe even participating) so that the money can keep coming in, in hopes that they might "change". That's my opinion.

[OGIA]

Originally Posted by Felicity

Easy to say. Like I said most of the preachers would say ....... "save them at all costs" ..... including the most conservative among us.

Well, that's not the attitude Paul always took. I sense he placed the health of the Body over the health of one soul.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by OGIA

Well, that's not the attitude Paul always took. I sense he placed the health of the Body over the health of one soul.

How is the whole body affected by the person who's sitting with sin in their life? How are you adversely affected by the person sitting on the back pew who has a cigarette habit?

[RevDWW]

Originally Posted by Felicity

How is the whole body affected by the person who's sitting with sin in their life? How are you adversely affected by the person sitting on the back pew who has a cigarette habit?

He might if he is the lung part of the body........

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by RevDWW

He might if he is the lung part of the body........

LOL!

That's pretty funny.