Monday, May 13, 2013

Don't Sweep Everything Under The Rug

In the politically correct Christianity that has swept through the modern day church anything goes and is even embraced.  Just like the Corinthians, we need to be aware that some things should never be brushed under the rug.  So are you saying we shun everyone and everything?  NO, read the text carefully!

1 Corinthians 5:1-2, 10-11 AMP

IT IS actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, impurity of a sort that is condemned and does not occur even among the heathen; for a man has [his own] father’s wife. And you are proud and arrogant! And you ought rather to mourn (bow in sorrow and in shame) until the person who has done this [shameful] thing is removed from your fellowship and your midst! Not [meaning of course that you must] altogether shun the immoral people of this world, or the greedy graspers and cheats and thieves or idolaters, since otherwise you would need to get out of the world and human society altogether! But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.

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