Part 2 of what I would write to the Boonville MO churches:
What do churches do?
Either churches go overboard with doctrine or underboard with license. There is no point at which the simple truth of the gospel is taught.
Either churches go overboard with judgment or underboard with allowances. There is no point at which the character of the Christian is considered.
Either churches go overboard with false love for God, bringing harshness in your treatment of those with problems, or you go underboard with false love for God, bringing permission to sin.
There never seems to be any kind of balance in what they do. Paul told the churches in the New testament to be balanced, not to be overboard in anything but in their love for each other and their love for Jesus Christ.
But love is real, it is not the treacly “Why doesn’t everybody get along together” kind of tripe that the world pretends to want.
That is not real love. that is nothing more than union: the deciding to put everything aside in order to not fight.
Love demands from others. It requires things in return. It requires excellence. It requires truth. Otherwise it is nothing.
It is not a great feeling for God such that we destroy each other. It is not the setting asdie of all else so that we can get along. It is the knowledge that we are all children of God together, equal in God’s sight, all worthy of his love, all worthy of each other’s love.
More later.
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