tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1433428682510068517.post6910694080051671623..comments2024-02-29T19:21:32.831-05:00Comments on Possible Worlds: On the Doctrine of SeparationRandy Everisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06870605678781409126noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1433428682510068517.post-9680633239602408042011-06-10T07:26:13.329-04:002011-06-10T07:26:13.329-04:00Travis, thanks for commenting. Wow, what a great s...Travis, thanks for commenting. Wow, what a great story! I love hearing these because it never ceases to amaze me. It is totally antithetical to everything my flesh says. My flesh says they won't receive the discipline, so we'd just be driving them away. But in reality who God chastens he loves, and we are in some specific cases needed to bring about that discipline. If we don't do it, it's like we're saying we know better than God does. Thanks so much for sharing this, and God bless!Randy Everisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06870605678781409126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1433428682510068517.post-34002199596829645492011-06-10T03:30:13.228-04:002011-06-10T03:30:13.228-04:00Hi Randy, I last year for the first time, had to i...Hi Randy, I last year for the first time, had to invoke Church discipline, it was not easy to do, as I have never seen it practiced before. I followed the biblical model, and was amazed to see the Holy Spirit work in the man that was disciplined. He was openly cursing another member of the Church, who had recently had a business with the man in discipline, and due to the man in discipline not lieing and ripping off some of their clients they had parted ways. But the backstabing went on for 2 months inwhich I had received many reports of this from people who had never attended church, and only let me know because they wanted to know if everyone in the Church was like the man who was disciplined. Anyways, after following through with the discipline, and explaining to the body what was going on, and that they were to pray for him, and encourage him to stop backbiting, and slandering, and apologize, so that he could be restored in fellowship. He went through a real rough time, and like the bible says, his flesh was tried. Afterward one Sunday 5 months later he walked into service, and I did not make a spectical of him, or an example by immediately kicking him out, though a deacon almost did... He asked to address tge body at the end of service, which I said he could do, after silently praying about the matter, and he apologized to the other man, all the congregation, myself and the two other pastors, and shared that he had gone to all the other people he had spoken to and retracted his previous statements, and asked for forgiveness.,, needless to say I was flabergasted, and awestruck. I was touched to see how the Lord had moved, and shared about all that the Lord had allowed to take place while he was not in fellowship, and he warned others to heed the warnings from other brothers, that we only did it cause we loved him and wanted to to be all that he is in Christ. God is truly amazing!!!Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346903726040706722noreply@blogger.com