Who would not be welcomed in your church?
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Who would not be welcomed in your church?
Who would not be welcomed in your church?
Well said.We have never excluded anyone from attending. I do not know of a church that has excluded anyone from attending.
Joining is a whole different topic.
We have never excluded anyone from attending. I do not know of a church that has excluded anyone from attending.
Joining is a whole different topic.
So what was the point of the question in the first place, if you're thinking about something that happened when you were a kid and you basically admit it doesn't happen now? (By your words "let's hope that never happens again")
I do not know how old you are, but there were huge numbers of churches that would not let the wrong type of person worship inside their church when I was a kid. Let's hope that never happens again.
Gandhi said that he might have become a Christian if he had ever met one. While a student in London he was refused entrance to church because he was from India.
Funny, the English sent missionaries to India to convert them to Christianity, but if those Christians came to England they were be refused the right to worship in an English church.
No, I read III John this morning and that prompted the question in my mind.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. Source
No, I read III John this morning and that prompted the question in my mind.
We have never excluded anyone from attending. I do not know of a church that has excluded anyone from attending.
Joining is a whole different topic.
We have never excluded anyone from attending. I do not know of a church that has excluded anyone from attending.
Joining is a whole different topic.
Our church excluded a member (who was a children's teacher) from attending. He was caught up in a crime against a minor (soliciting) as the parents of the minor intersected his texts. Both the minor and her family, as well as his wife and children (they are now separated), attend our church. He was counseled and several members of our congregation has extended help in love, but at the same time there were consequences to this sin. I don't know if it is right or wrong, but he was asked not to attend the church. It was causing conflict with his family, the family of his intended victim, and of course most parents with tween -aged girls. So....now you know of a church that has excluded someone from attending. Glad I could help :thumbsup:
keeping a feller from coming because he looked like Gandhi are two different things. The feller in your case should've been strung up out back of the barn and given ample opportunity to repent.
Who would not be welcomed in your church?
The person in my case WAS "given ample opportunity to repent."
He repented, and has proven time and again that his repentance(s) were genuine.
Isn't that what 2 Corinthians 2:6-10 urges a church to do?
Or is there something more that our church failed to do for him?
If there is more we should do for him, please post the NT passages that indicate what else we should do for him and I'll bring it to the attention of our elders, deacons, and other people in church leadership positions so that they can take the additional Biblical actions in his behalf.
Thanks in advance for supplying me with these additional NT verses. :wavey:
Gandhi went to London in 1888. I don't know how old you are but I suspect Gandhi was before your time. And what does III John have to do with folks being kept out of churches?
Please read III John very slowly and carefully keeping in mind the subject of welcoming and authority. I think you will see why the question came to my mind.
Who would not be welcomed in your church?