And this is the purpose of your post? Or what? That sinner can repent? Or to advertise your counseling skills?
My point is that sinful Christians have no right to say that other sinful Christians are not Christians. Only god knows the hearts of man.
One who truly believes that Jesus Christ is Lord and savior, the way the truth and the light, the only way to the father, believes he was fully god and fully man who came to earth Messiah to fulfill scriptures and die in exchange for our sins so that we could get access to the father even as sinners. characteristics that are observable by man are generally a changed life that they live for his glory. This can be acted out a number of ways but feeding his sheep and spreading the gospel are the most common. Agape!
The purpose of this screed is to accuse ministers and counselors who take sin seriously and confront it in the lives of their charges of being Sanctimonious, and of being Hypocrites, and of being Just Damn Mean.
It's a lot like the lily-livered preachers and teachers that tell the story of Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery, but somehow manage to leave off the part at the end where Jesus sternly tells the adultress "go and sin no more." I guess that sharp warning makes Jesus seem sanctimonious, mean and probabaly misogynistic to boot.