Saturday, July 19, 2008

What's Missing?

What happened in the case of Ananias and Saphira (Acts 5)?

This information may be found at: Missing the Mark

“What is pure is corrupted much more quickly than what is corrupt is purified.”
JOHN CASSIAN (A.D. 360-435)



"The decline of church discipline is perhaps the most visible failure of the contemporary church. No longer concerned with maintaining purity of confession or lifestyle, the contemporary church sees itself as a voluntary association of autonomous members, with minimal moral accountability to God, much less to each other.

The absence of church discipline is no longer remarkable—it is generally not even noticed. Regulative and restorative church discipline is, to many church members, no longer a meaningful category, or even a memory. The present generation of both ministers and church members is virtually without experience of biblical church discipline."


Whose church is it anyway?

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