kceaster
Puritan Board Junior
I was having a conversation with a brother on the Lord's day and it occurred to me that quite a bit of energy has been spent in the last two decades over who is in the church and who isn't, who is a Christian and who isn't, who is in the covenant and who isn't.
Do you all think if we were truly practicing discipline, we wouldn't need to make these distinctions? Why is it important to know who's in and who's out? Especially when we keep talking about hypotheticals and not real world people.
Can't it be just simply living in the covenant with each other, and encouraging all to go on to perfection, and admonish those who don't seem to be? That when we are faced with a member's sin, we rightly admonish and censure them?
If we were carrying out true discipline, would we need to make a distinction?
Do you all know what I am saying?
In Christ,
KC
Do you all think if we were truly practicing discipline, we wouldn't need to make these distinctions? Why is it important to know who's in and who's out? Especially when we keep talking about hypotheticals and not real world people.
Can't it be just simply living in the covenant with each other, and encouraging all to go on to perfection, and admonish those who don't seem to be? That when we are faced with a member's sin, we rightly admonish and censure them?
If we were carrying out true discipline, would we need to make a distinction?
Do you all know what I am saying?
In Christ,
KC