Homewardbound you are missing something. You keep saying Love is the key right? Well you are showing love to someone when you kick them out of your church in hopes they see the error in their ways. Letting them continue in a comfortable life, with sins that are stated specifically to NOT inherit the kingdom of God (like homosexuality) is a terrible thing. You are not making them want to change at all, and therefore they won't, and therefore they won't inherit the kingdom of God.
King James Bible
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Proverbs 27:6
The wounds you put on someone by kicking them out, by putting them through pain, IS love. It's focusing on their salvation, not how warm and fuzzy they feel on the inside. Which is more important? Salvation, or how good one feels? I would say salvation.
Thank you for your stance:
Romans 14:4 Who art thou that
judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he
standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him
stand.
if you are led to do what you say then go for it, but if you are not then this work of self will burn up at judgment
Romans 14:10 But why dost thou
judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all
stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Tell your brother, Sister as to how you belief yes definitely, and then trust God to do God's work through you the same as the Disciples who waited for God from the Spirit of on high and preached through them, get it, love you
no one comes to belief truly but by God truly, there is no more self works to be done after the cross of Christ, none
[h=3]ohn 3[/h]Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
3 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: [SUP]2 [/SUP]the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. [SUP]3 [/SUP]Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. [SUP]4 [/SUP]Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? [SUP]5 [/SUP]Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and
of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [SUP]6 [/SUP]That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. [SUP]7 [/SUP]Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. [SUP]8 [/SUP]
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
This can't be forced as many do this force. Love as you are loved, maybe if being mean to them is not your view, yet it is theirs, then maybe tell them I do this because I love you as God does.
Now I remember my Mother saying this to me as Dad was whipping me with the belt, and I looked at my Mother and said if this is love I want nothing to do with it.
She then started talking with me, and I never got the belt again, for God used her to teach me truth over error from that day forward and I did not listen, and later did. God is amazingly awesome to all, and I see your conviction on this issue, but please be careful how deep it goes into condemning others even though you have the greatest of intentions