[metmom]

DAMN...and here I thought that the church was MEANT to house sinners...oh well, if it’s just a place for the redeemed to hang out, most of us had just best mosey on......sigh.

What an unbelievable misunderstanding of what the church is about and what redemption is about.

But then again, I'm not surprised.......

[CynicalBear]

And Catholics berate us with that passage and "bring it to the church" trying to prove the church is who disciplines when that whole passage is about not allowing a person persisting in sin to meet with them after having been admonished. Now they are supposed to let them all stay because "the church was MEANT to house sinners"?

No, the church is not meant to house sinners. It's meant to house those who have repented from sin.

[terycarl]

What an unbelievable misunderstanding of what the church is about and what redemption is about. But then again, I'm not surprised.......

Let's see now...the church is not for sinners.....it is reserved as a social hangout for people who have left the true church and decided to do things their own way....Now I get it...once that you call yourself "born again" you have a nice local congregation to hang out with....all those liars, sodomists, divorcees, thieves, whatever can fend for themselves....Christ came to entertain us, not save those sinners...........maybe not.