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Originally Posted by tcalbrecht  Well, I hear what y'all are saying, but somehow I fail to get the "humor" in the midst of the terrible accusations that are flying back and forth. I think such attempts at "humor" in this context are, at best, ill advised.
In the meantime I'll stand by the substance of my comment. |
"Terrible Accusations?" C'mon Tom, this isn't a case of someone saying someone saw Preacher so and so coming out of the Adult Bookstore with a large parcel, its a case of individuals, theologians, seminaries, and denominations examining the published and spoken materials produced by FV advocates like Wilson and Wilkins and then concluding that they are neither Scriptural or Confessional and then issuing statements and papers to that effect and explaining why. Once that has been done, the next
logical step is to discipline the men who hold to those errors if they insist on remaining within the denominations that hold their teachings to be erroneous. You can historically expect voluminous complaints from the men being disciplined and all sorts of insinuations while the process is taking place. You can also expect those doing the disciplining to occasionally become angry and impatient, after all the problem is that you have sinners disciplining sinners.
But those ever-present problems do not, and indeed cannot form an invincible obstacle to the proper exercise of the third mark of the true church. Simply put, as imperfect as the process is and always will be, it is what we are commanded to do. The consequences of NOT exercising church discipline are always far worse.