Scripture is more than clear about how to deal with sin in the church and churches are not exercising church discipline as they ought.
Somehow, we’ve gotten the mentality that holding people accountable is *unloving* and proof that we haven’t forgiven.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I was also just talking about this with a friend last night. She mentioned that sanctification is not being taught in churches that she knows about and I said I noticed the same thing. Nothing about growing more Christlike in holiness.
It’s all about *feelings* and being yet MORE loving and MORE forgiving and of course, *non-judgmental*. And then there’s the whole prosperity gospel nonsense, and the weirdness that’s coming out of the word of faith movement, that’s all focused on us and what we can get from God. Weird manifestations and experiences trump holy living and Bible study.
We are to call sin out where we see it and flee from it. Yes we still sin but sin should never. e “celebrated” as it is in some “churches”. I agree we do a terrible job if this for the most part
The reason we have stopped going to our church is because three girls who attend the same church bullied our daughter and nothing was done about it. We were offered the chance to let our daughter go to a Sunday school class for older kids or let her go “help” in the nursery during Sunday school. My husband has spoken to the regional office for the Presbyterian Church trying to find our what their policy on bullying is but he’s gotten the runaround so far.