^ok go with that but your gonna end up having to excommunicate more then them because you cant just look at on sin you have to look at them all from fornicates that masturbate,thieves that take a pen without asking, lairs that tell white lies, people who really like and actor of musician for idolatry, kids rebelling there parents, wanting that nice shinny car your neighbor has to covet, all the overweight people for there gluttony, being greedy and obsessing and hoarding anything, being lazy, To get angry even for little reason, to think highly of yourself for good that you have done Pride....
be quite no one would be in the churches if we thought that way it doesn't work you cannot live without sinning thats why the lord came to save use from the sin the only way to help them is to lead them to Christ and let them find out there transgression and repent for them in gods time not there yours or mine overcoming sin isn't instant its a journey and we will never fully rid ourselves of it all we can do is turn to Christ in temptation and forgiveness
Those saints excommunicated are the ones that will not repent and thus not asking for forgiveness.
Matthew 18:[SUP]
10 [/SUP]Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. [SUP]
11 [/SUP]For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. [SUP]
12 [/SUP]How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? [SUP]
13 [/SUP]And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. [SUP]
14 [/SUP]Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Even Jesus taught the believers to take care of their own, and not neglect nor despise any one that is new and growing in the Lord. Paul taught the same care for one another.
1 Corinthians 12:[SUP]
25 [/SUP]That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. [SUP]
26 [/SUP]And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. [SUP]
27 [/SUP]Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.