As mentioned yesterday, Craig Groeschel at LifeChurch.tv has a series of posts about challenging people to leave his church if they’re not behind the church’s vision.
Today he wraps up the series of four posts with a list of reasons he’s had to actually tell someone to leave his church:
- Teachers who taught false doctrine
- A leader who continued in adultery and wouldn’t end his sinful relationship
- A man who made repeated sexual advances at women
- A person who stalked one of our staff members
- A convicted child molester who wouldn’t stay away from the children
- A person who repeatedly threatened bodily harm to another person
I’ve only heard of two churches asking people to leave and both were handled differently. One church told a friend to not come back because she was addicted to drugs. To me – that’s the person who needs to be there for sure. But the church leadership apparently saw things differently. Secondly, a church “revoked the membership” of a member who continued to be involved in an affair. The great thing about this situation is men from the church continue to remain in touch with this person and meet with him as regularly as possible to help encourage him and bring him back to Christ. The man wasn’t simply hung out to dry to wallow in his sin. I think that’s a great example of grace – despite a man’s sin.
