1Co5

When the church celebrates sin, it has lost its gospel witness! The church is a place to be set free from sin, not a place to celebrate it! if our church is not a place that convicts us of our sin, we need to find a different church.

Having a church that tolerates and even promotes sin would be like having a hospital that gave out sickness and death! We go the hospital because we are sick and don't want to die! The purpose of the hospital is to help us recovery from our sickness so we can live!

God help our churches to be hospitals for sinners. We welcome sinners and offer the healing message of the gospel. Paul is clear in this chapter. We are to "judge" each other and remove any "so-call believer" who is not willing to deal radically with their sin.

We need these words for our churches today.