Re: Replu
LindaBee2 wrote:gethsemane, Christians have been charged with the task of casting out seeds in the hopes of bringing people a few steps closer to Christ. We have also been told to identify sin in a person's life and correct them gently, so the person will be steered on to the right path. We have been forbidden from judging hypocritically and harshly, and we are not to judge the sinner himself. That's for God to handle. We just the person's actions, not the person himself.
Christian's are called to identify sin within the community of Christ and take steps to correct ourselves and our community. We are not called to make an issue of the sin in the lives of those outside our ranks.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13
9 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters; for then you would have to go out of the world. 11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he should be an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler-- not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves. NAS