Preacher2015
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Should the church allow someone join the church who is living in adultery?
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Adultery
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Are they regenerated?
Preacher2015
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They say they are Christian
My initial response is to say no.
I'm conflicted by the fact that the church allows the obese, the divorced/remarried, the addicted, and a whole lot more to join the church. Where does the line stop?
I'm conflicted by the fact that the church allows the obese, the divorced/remarried, the addicted, and a whole lot more to join the church. Where does the line stop?
Living in open, defiant, unrepented sin would stop membership process NO MATTER WHAT sin we are talking about.
That said, "living in adultery" is a vague description and loosely used. By definition, adultery is "voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse". If a person is "living" in adultery, this implies immorality, abandonment of family, desertion of spouse, etc, many levels of wrong that must be righted
That said, "living in adultery" is a vague description and loosely used. By definition, adultery is "voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not his or her spouse". If a person is "living" in adultery, this implies immorality, abandonment of family, desertion of spouse, etc, many levels of wrong that must be righted
canadyjd
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No. But what are you calling adultery? Do you mean fornication or adultery or both? Do you mean two people living as husband and wife (common law) but not formally married? Is the couple a couple previously married to others and divorced and remarried? What are the circumstances?
Preacher2015
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One is married but separated the other is divorced and recently moved in. I guess it would be fornication
No for those who profess to know Jesus and yet persisted in known sinning without any repentance at all, they are to be treated as being now in a state of unsaved until they repent and change their ways
Sexual sinning, so must stop playing live in lovers , as being "friends with benefits"
1 Cor. 7:12-13, 15. '...If a brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him ....... But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.'
It seems to me that in such cases, the Scripture is saying that the believer is entitled to divorce the unbeliever and to remarry.
It seems to me that in such cases, the Scripture is saying that the believer is entitled to divorce the unbeliever and to remarry.
In that case no, they should not be allowed to join the church. In fact, they should be put through church discipline.
God desires to always have reconciliation, forgiveness, and restoration, but at times due to hardness of the heart, H will permit scriptural divorce and remarriage