Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind (Post 234237)

My Mother was disfellowshipped from the Mormon church. We had already experienced Pentecost so it worked out ok.

Originally Posted by CareyM (Post 234204)

Just curious...has anyone here ever been disfellowshipped from a church?

Pastors, reasons would you ever disfellowship someone in your congregation?

Originally Posted by Sheltiedad (Post 234243)

I've never been disfellowshipped, although I have tried very hard. :D

Originally Posted by Esther (Post 234248)

Not yet. :)

I love my pastor so I hope he doesn't send me packing. :)

Originally Posted by CareyM (Post 234204)

Just curious...has anyone here ever been disfellowshipped from a church?

Pastors, reasons would you ever disfellowship someone in your congregation?

Originally Posted by Ferd (Post 234268)

Not me. I did tell a pastor he needed to put one person out. This is the only person I have ever come in contact with that literally met the criteria biblically speaking.

He didn’t. The pastors I know are longsuffering guys who love people. Eventually her kid went to jail for assaulting someone in the church and she left mad because the church didn’t support her rapscallion son.

My friend taught me something about waiting on God.

Originally Posted by Joseph (Post 234281)

I have disfellowshipped a few pastors in my time.



:) j/k

Originally Posted by Pianoman (Post 234390)

I have disfellowshipped a few pastors and churches in my lifetime! :)

Originally Posted by Subdued (Post 234407)

LadyRev and HeavenlyOne are feeling disfellowshipped right now.

:killinme:killinme:killinme:killinme:killinme:kill inme:killinme:killinme:killinme:killinme:killinme

Originally Posted by MissBrattified (Post 234302)

Not officially...but effectively, yes. It was hurtful and needless. Stupid, if you get right down to the brass tacks. :)

I'm no pastor, but I think that disfellowshipping someone should be a last resort, in extreme circumstances. I can't even think of very many scenarios in which it would be recommended. Biblically or otherwise.

Originally Posted by Pragmatist (Post 234310)

We were part of a church where a family was asked to leave for causing dissension. The church fell apart soon after that so I would have to say it wasn't the right thing to do.

Originally Posted by Jesuswins (Post 234342)

Just wondering what the Biblical Criteria would be? :roseglasses

Originally Posted by HADDOCK (Post 234357)

I was associated with COGOP for a time and knew of members being immediatley disfellowshipped for remarrying if they had a living spouse or marrying someone with a living spouse.

Originally Posted by Pianoman (Post 234390)

I have disfellowshipped a few pastors and churches in my lifetime! :)

Originally Posted by tamor (Post 234403)

I've don't know anyone who has been disfellowshipped, but I do remember once when a pastor told his leadership that he was "marking" a certain person, and for the leadership to "watch" the man.

It turned out that the guy he thought was a bad seed wasn't a problem after all. The pastor just wasn't real slick in his discernment of people.

Originally Posted by Trouvere (Post 234487)

Nope.I have always been a help.

Originally Posted by AmazingGrace (Post 234512)

I know a family who was a help too but they were disfellowshiped for stupid reasons and it was sure not left as a last resort for this pastor but just because the people who were disfellowshiped didnt agree with stupidity!

Originally Posted by freeatlast (Post 234573)

I used to be in a upc church that you just didn't leave. If you did leave, the saints of that church were instructed to have no fellowship with you.

We left 16 years ago to assist in another upc work n a neighboring town. We were treated by our "old friends" like we had the plague.

Recently many have appologized for their actions. We hold no ill feelings toward sthem as they did it in ignorant obedience to a paranoid pastor.

This kind of "disfellowship" is more prevalant in our ranks me thinks.

Originally Posted by freeatlast (Post 234573)

I used to be in a upc church that you just didn't leave. If you did leave, the saints of that church were instructed to have no fellowship with you.

We left 16 years ago to assist in another upc work n a neighboring town. We were treated by our "old friends" like we had the plague.

Recently many have appologized for their actions. We hold no ill feelings toward sthem as they did it in ignorant obedience to a paranoid pastor.

This kind of "disfellowship" is more prevalant in our ranks me thinks.

Originally Posted by Pianoman (Post 234592)

When my father and mother first got married, they moved up north to find a job. There were no Apostolic churches in that town, so they attended a Church of God. They were 18 years old.

During testimony service one Sunday, dad got up and started preaching about the oneness of God and baptism in Jesus name! He was asked by the pastor to leave, and 30 other people left with him! That's when my father started the Apostolic church. By the time my father left that city 18 years later, they were regularly running 300+!

Originally Posted by Pianoman (Post 234592)

When my father and mother first got married, they moved up north to find a job. There were no Apostolic churches in that town, so they attended a Church of God. They were 18 years old.

During testimony service one Sunday, dad got up and started preaching about the oneness of God and baptism in Jesus name! He was asked by the pastor to leave, and 30 other people left with him! That's when my father started the Apostolic church. By the time my father left that city 18 years later, they were regularly running 300+!

Originally Posted by freeatlast (Post 234573)

I used to be in a upc church that you just didn't leave. If you did leave, the saints of that church were instructed to have no fellowship with you.

We left 16 years ago to assist in another upc work n a neighboring town. We were treated by our "old friends" like we had the plague.

Recently many have appologized for their actions. We hold no ill feelings toward sthem as they did it in ignorant obedience to a paranoid pastor.

This kind of "disfellowship" is more prevalant in our ranks me thinks.

Originally Posted by RandyWayne (Post 234587)

Hey, it happened to my family about 20 years ago.

Originally Posted by Pianoman (Post 234592)

When my father and mother first got married, they moved up north to find a job. There were no Apostolic churches in that town, so they attended a Church of God. They were 18 years old.

During testimony service one Sunday, dad got up and started preaching about the oneness of God and baptism in Jesus name! He was asked by the pastor to leave, and 30 other people left with him! That's when my father started the Apostolic church. By the time my father left that city 18 years later, they were regularly running 300+!