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Of course not, but it seemed to me he was giving too much credit to the church which has proven untrustworthy in times past. Again, no offense--probably just a stiff-necked Baptist thing.
A Churches failure does not give us the power to change the scriptural mandate (which Pilgrim was giving you). We don't change our methodology to being unscriptural just because "some" Churches have failed to properly enact Church Discipline. No offense meant, but the problem is that you were speaking from your experience (which did not reflect a proper Church, Christ's love, discipline, etc.) and attempting (innocently) to make your experience more scriptural then Scripture itself. ALL of us need to watch out for this type of interpretative methodology.

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a group acting under prayer, conviction, and having the obvious evidence of a person's sinful activities at hand could do it right.
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Reformed and Always Reforming,