“Jesus the Christ is the judge and the Holy Spirit speaking through St. Paul told us to butt out. Could you refreash me on that verse?”
Sure, it already on this thread (bit more eloquent than me):
. . . For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written:
“ ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.’ “So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way. . . .
Okay, I can see that as a denominational analog. The problem is that interpreting it that way makes all the Scriptures that presume Church authority and discipline, moot.