"It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you."
If there is someone in the church engaging in immorality, it must be addressed. We need to love people and accept them for who they are, but if Christians in our church are sinning and refusing to repent, we do them no favors by ignoring the problem. We are foolish if we congratulate ourselves for our acceptance of sin. Sin in the church should make us sad.
We should try to help the sinner. But if he persists, the best way that we can help him may be to remove him from our fellowship. That may seem extreme, but the effects of sin are extreme. And we must do everything we can to help the unrepentant sinner understand this.
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