Comments on: Reading this will make you uncomfortable…Part II http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/08/26/reading-this-will-make-you-uncomfortablepart-ii/ Content and Context of benCRAWFORDlife Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: teenshelter http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/08/26/reading-this-will-make-you-uncomfortablepart-ii/#comment-129 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:27:23 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-129 jp, that 4000+ people example is pretty awesome. the only people who are ever disciplined in that model are the super high profile leaders. which would necessitate the question: What about everyone else’s sin? Is it less important? I’m also pretty sure that by the time church discipline is practiced in a public mega church sense the potential for restoration (or at least within that community) is too late. This is odd because it seems that the whole point of the passage is restoration NOT for the church to make a public stance against sin…which is how this passage seems to be usually practiced. thanks for the dialogue.

]]> By: eden2zion http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/08/26/reading-this-will-make-you-uncomfortablepart-ii/#comment-127 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:55:31 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-127 Both posts on this subject are great Ben! You have a unique sense for the principled importance of handling these sins that cause subtle community erosion. This strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a community of disciples.

This process makes so much sense in the context of being a body (living life interdependently with other believers) but must less in an institutional environment. I remember seeing names of adulterers read to a congregation of 4000+ people thinking “is this really what Jesus meant?”

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