Facade & Pharisees in the church

[SiblingRevelry]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

We are commanded not to keep company with fornicators. No communion/fellowship is allowed. Fornication, from the Greek word porne means sexual immorality of any sort. Homosexuality, as an aberrant sexuality, is illicit and immoral. There is wisdom in not spending time with people "in church" who are actively living such a lifestyle.

They already stand condemned. Having a youth leader separate some young people from them isn't wrong.

Then I guess Jesus would be in big, big trouble, because he sat and ate with tax collectors and other notorious sinners. (Mark 2:15-17, Matthew 9:10-12, Luke 5:29-31)

15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

That Jesus! He really offended the Pharisees!

[Abiding Now]

Was the conference in the north Dallas area?

[MissBlogger201]

I'm not going to say what or where not being mean.

[MissBlogger201]

Would I know your pastor? Is your church big?

[Abiding Now]

Originally Posted by MissBlogger201

Would I know your pastor? Is your church big?

Maybe. Define "big".

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by SiblingRevelry

Then I guess Jesus would be in big, big trouble, because he sat and ate with tax collectors and other notorious sinners. (Mark 2:15-17, Matthew 9:10-12, Luke 5:29-31)



That Jesus! He really offended the Pharisees!

Haven't read 1 Corinthians 5 recently, I presume? Note what I said. I said "in church".

I didn't say out of church, for then, as Paul wrote, we would have to leave the world entirely.

[Dordrecht]

Originally Posted by MissBlogger201

Would I know your pastor? Is your church big?

Our church is so big…it's world wide.
And everybody in it was born a sinner, not an apostolic.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Abiding Now

Was the conference in the north Dallas area?

Wondering that same thing...

[MissBlogger201]

Oh my goodness I'm tired of this I simply wanted to write something about what I seen and you are coming back at me like I don't know anything about the church like I have not been in church my whole life. I know we need to separate ourselves from the world I know that we need to keep our young people away from people that would be harmful, I know all this ok. I'm not trying to be mean to you but I need you to understand that I understand how this works. And no matter what you say it's was still wrong to have done that to those young people at that conference, and maybe they should be grown up already to have decided fr themselves if they needed to stay away from them.

[Dordrecht]

Originally Posted by MissBlogger201

Oh my goodness I'm tired of this I simply wanted to write something about what I seen and you are coming back at me like I don't know anything about the church like I have not been in church my whole life. I know we need to separate ourselves from the world I know that we need to keep our young people away from people that would be harmful, I know all this ok. I'm not trying to be mean to you but I

Don't get to excited!
You are on the Apostolic Friends Forum…..lol.