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I appreciate your writing and the time it took for you to detail your thoughts.

However, I am not sure if you are correct about disallowing unsaved people into the congregation, as a visitor. How then shall they see our love for one another, ala “They shall know Him by our love for one another”?

There is a dangerous isolationism, a false asceticism, in Christian circles today; a sin that supposes to be “removed from the world” makes one holier than those who are actively in the world, preaching, being an example, etc.

I think the problem is that we have no idea at all as to how we are to “make disciples of all nations” but we are really really good at playing church.

I'm taken aback to hear that there is actually some sort of "doctrine" about Pastors not evangelizing, or that somehow the church proper is not a place to witness or evangelize. Since when?

(PastorBooks earlier analogy between the synagogue and the church holds no water because the Jews under the Old Covenant really didn't ever consider evangelism; they had not the Holy Spirit freely given to be given away.)

Jesus tells us that the unsaved “shall know Me by your love for one another” — how are the unsaved to be able to witness Christians love for one another if they cannot come to church? Or are somehow excluded?

This man Mohler is only preaching what Paul preached and I presume no one on this thread would have trouble with it:

“... and such were some of you”.

Mohler is only trying to point out the terrible failure of our modern church in regards to homosexuality.

“PieterCasparzen” on this thread points out the verse about incest in a professed believer in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 5

But what this citation says is that Christians are

1. not to tolerate sin in a professed Christian

2. Not to even eat a meal with a liar, cheater, idolater, swindler or sexually immoral person who PROFESSES CHRIST

3. Paul goes on to say that we in the church are not to “Be removed from the world” . Thus, Paul addresses the problem of monasticism or the sin of false asceticism, removing oneself from the world and thinking you are more spiritual by isolation!

4. This citation makes it clear that we are not to judge the unsaved for their sin because THEY HAVE NO WAY TO OVERCOME THEIR SIN WITHOUT JESUS.

5. Paul makes it clear we have no right to judge the unsaved, God is their judge, BUT WE ARE TO JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH or who PROFESS JESUS if they are sexually immoral.

This man Mohler is doing the work of the Holy Spirit, not being liberal or loose about sin.

Such were some of YOU until someone loved you enough to preach the Word of God to you and you accepted Jesus and repented of your sinful life and put the Old Man of Sin to death in your life.

Mohler is right. And so is Paul.

I wonder, how many men who use porn on a regular basis and go to church should be treated as Paul treated the man in incest in 1 Corinthians? We know the church is filled with porn addicts. This sin is as much of an abomination as being gay to God. And yet people are afraid of evangelizing or ministering to unsaved gays? Hypocrites. The church is for the sick.

Jesus says “I came not for the healthy (the righteous) but for the sick (the sinners) — did He not say this?

Jesus weeps. No wonder we in the church are being judged. Mohler is a man of God, and I say Lord bless this man's hands, keep him strong in You Oh Lord.

You are aware that Sarah Palin got it right on Paul Revere?

She was dead on accurate with her history.

The MSM is responding to the Longfellow poem about the ride of Revere that had to do with something else.

The other thing the MSM is responding to is that Palin used a slightly hesitant style in discussing American History with that reporter, probably because she is unsure of how much actual US History the MSM understands.

A lot of conjecture here. TPE seemed to be on top of today’s nightmare in NY 26th weeks ago.

As a formerly avid reader of Tiger Beat, the idea that Obama is “cute” is very strange.

The more I find out about Bush, and I could not stand the RoveRINO stuff Bush was doing his last years in office...

Amnesty, the Patriot Act, Prescription drugs, Homeland Security instead of FIXING the intel services...

All that New World Order stuff with his dad.

Plus Bush’s daughters BOTH came out FOR Obamacare last year.

Yeah.

And Jeb has a stupid photo op with Obama last month in florida?

And Barbara Bush takes a pot shot at Sarah Palin?

I’m sorry, something’s wrong.

Trump may know, or have known stuff then, in 2008, that even Freepers didn’t know.