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Originally Posted by Antipas

I believe that a pastor is within their rights to pull a person aside over a sin issue. They are also within their rights to rebuke the sin before all, without mentioning the person's name. I also think the pastor is within their rights to rebuke the sin, and name the person before the congregation.

Of course, wisdom and the leading of the Holy Ghost should guide the pastor in all of this.

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What sin is it that needs rebuked in front of an entire congregation that all of those people don't already know is wrong? Can they catch adultery like it's chicken pox or something? Or perhaps thievery is spreading like cholera?

Maybe I have been reading too much into some of these responses, but they always seem like the pastor is going out of his way to mention something that is festering in the congregation. Couldn't all of that be addressed with a sermon that includes "and such were some of you?" Or is that not putting down the hammer hard enough?