[Born in a Rage]

Quick!! Get rid of the parts of the Bible that don't make us 'compassionate' conservatives!! Yes, we continue to pray for those that are lost, but we are not supposed to associate with them let alone worship with them. BTW, do you think sexual immorality covers homosexuality?

Please, please do not take anything that I am saying as being a "compassionate conservative"....Bush is huge disappointment to me.

What makes you think that you know all of the sexual exploits of the people in your church? If you did, perhaps you would have to worship all alone.

[billbears]

Bush is huge disappointment to me.

Well we agree on that.

What makes you think that you know all of the sexual exploits of the people in your church? If you did, perhaps you would have to worship all alone.

I understand what you're saying but understand the context of the verses I quoted. It was common knowledge within the church of the sin committed so it needed to be acted upon just as in this case. Are there sins that we hold within ourselves and should repent of, mistakes we may have made? Of course. As humans, we are not perfect, only Christ is. And God will bring those sins out in the open sooner or later convict us of them. However, if our sins are known to the church and we still continue in them without true repentance, is it not the right, the responsibility, of the church to act upon them by disassociating with the sinner according to above verses?