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Originally Posted by onefaith2
Yes IF is the key! But if the leadership continually sang him in the choir, allowed him to testify, preached about how righteous He is because Jesus is righteous, yet he remains doing what he is doing, AT some point the church has got to say, You have to let it go!
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You know, there isn't really a verse that gives us the "cut-off" point. But I don't know that we really need one. I don't think one was provided for us because it never comes up. The people I have seen smothered by grace have been the very ones who are so smitten with God and His mercy, that they are magnetically drawn to God more than ever!
I once sat in the office on a Saturday with two parents and their daughter, who was in the choir, who had been caught in the back seat of a car with a boy on a Friday night. Yes, they were doing THAT.
She was devastated. Broken. Embarrassed.
It was assumed that she wouldn't be doing anything in the church for a while but I strongly insisted that she stand in the choir the next day with her head held high, understanding that she was forgiven, restored, and on exactly the same level as anyone else in that choir. There was no way I could allow that choir to sing about God's grace the next day if it didn't have any grace.
Today, that girl is married with two beautiful children and a great family there was never an issue again. But had there been, we would have done the same thing again.
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