Puritan Sailor
Puritan Board Doctor
Just pondering this for some reason.
A guy is legitimately excommunicated from his church. He walks down the street to the neighbor church and becomes a member, no questions asked (remember this is America), with full communion privileges. Will God bless him through the means of grace in that new church? Or will he be spiritually cut off until he reconciles and repents with the former church? I know that "whatever you bind on earth... is bound in heaven.... etc." But here you have conflicting decisions of the Church. One shuts, the other opens. Thoughts?
A guy is legitimately excommunicated from his church. He walks down the street to the neighbor church and becomes a member, no questions asked (remember this is America), with full communion privileges. Will God bless him through the means of grace in that new church? Or will he be spiritually cut off until he reconciles and repents with the former church? I know that "whatever you bind on earth... is bound in heaven.... etc." But here you have conflicting decisions of the Church. One shuts, the other opens. Thoughts?