...that ye be not judged!”
Who is Jesus saying this to?...the Church??
No-one has even heard of the Church yet.
No, this is said to His Jewish disciples while Pharisees were critically scrutinising what everyone else did.
So, whatever
does Jesus mean by this?
(Matt 7:1-5)
Isn’t he saying?... “Don’t go around picking fault with other people - deal with your own faults first."
Now then...
let’s see if today’s pastors are right in applying this to the Church, as many
do...(Matt 7:1-5)
Isn’t he saying?... “Don’t go around picking fault with other people - deal with your own faults first."
“...do your own business, and to
work with your own hands”. Yup, mind your own business, guys - which agrees with: ‘judge not’.
So where
does that leave pastors who use Christ’s ‘Sermon on the Mount’ to skip Church
discipline so as to keep their congregation full?
“Church discipline?...what’s that??”
Are they undermining our Lord's instructions thru apostle Paul to the Church? Is it any wonder that apostasy is rampant in the Church and increasing?
“Church discipline?...what’s that??”
Are they undermining our Lord's instructions thru apostle Paul to the Church? Is it any wonder that apostasy is rampant in the Church and increasing?
The early
Church was not a free-for-all like today – oh no!...
“...of the rest [of the people]
durst no man join himself to them; but the people magnified them.”
Church
discipline was respected by all – even unbelievers!!
