tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28702517.post5425413811776261544..comments2018-03-22T00:55:52.141-04:00Comments on Two Pastors and a Ph.D Student: 1 Corinthians 5: Church Discipline, Part 1Jason Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06814038804168594715noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28702517.post-85568098862368388462008-07-09T08:46:00.000-04:002008-07-09T08:46:00.000-04:00I am glad you found this sermon helpful. Church D...I am glad you found this sermon helpful. Church Discipline is a hairy subject, even in the church I pastor. We do not practice discipline as we ought. <BR/><BR/>This church has a long history of practicing discipline but it fell out of use in the 20th century. I am leading the church to recover the practice, however I have run into some challenges. We are currently taking small steps in the right direction.<BR/><BR/>I hope your church may take steps one day to become more faithful to the Biblical witness concerning church discipline.Jason Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06814038804168594715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28702517.post-24743721722858606602008-07-09T02:15:00.000-04:002008-07-09T02:15:00.000-04:00I found this article very helpful. I had googled C...I found this article very helpful. I had googled Church discipline as I am dismayed by my own Church & its lack of action against blatant sin & worldliness in our midst.<BR/><BR/>It is true the modern Church has become frightened of discipline. The premise being (I am told by leaders) that we have all sinned & God has forgiven us, therefore we should offer the same grace to all others.<BR/><BR/>I have also heard that being reinforced by Luther's observation that it is a mysterious paradox that men can be both sinner & saved.<BR/><BR/>However, when a Church members life "screams" that he is not saved, it is no longer a paradox, but a straightforward contradiction that they are living. Like yeast it can affect the whole Body.<BR/><BR/>Oh that the Church would waken from it's wooly "love & grace to all mentality" that is so ridiculed by the world, and which is steadily making it seem irrelevant and out of hypocritical. <BR/><BR/>It is not loving someone to allow them continue in delusion having been given every opportunity to repent.<BR/><BR/>Good article. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com