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Beloved:

It is NECESSARY in our hardened and apostate age for the CHURCH to be called back to the New Testament doctrine of CHURCH DISCIPLINE. In our day, THE CHURCH has become TOLERANT OF SIN even when it is found in her own people. This warrants THE WRATH OF GOD upon the CHURCH’S INDIFFERENCE TO HIS HOLINESS. The PRESENT-DAY CHURCH seems more willing to IGNORE SIN than to DENOUNCE it, and more ready to COMPROMISE God’s Law than to PROCLAIM it. It is a tragic FACT that MANY churches REFUSE TO TAKE SIN SERIOUSLY.

We have NO RIGHT to DIALOGUE about SIN. That was EVE’S MISTAKE in the Garden of Eden. Satan’s suggestions should have been PROMPTLY REBUKED; but instead they were DISCUSSED (Genesis 3:1-5). The CHURCH cannot stand before her enemies while IGNORING SIN in her own ranks. It would be DIFFICULT to show another doctrine of CHURCH LIFE which is more commonly IGNORED by TODAY’S CHURCH than CHURCH DISCIPLINE. Make no mistake about it: CHURCH MEMBERSHIP today is MEANINGLESS to MANY because of the lack of CHURCH DISCIPLINE in our CHURCHES!

The present Era of NO-FAULT BEHAVIOR has spilled over into many if not most of the CHURCHES and as a result their biblical Influence, Integrity and Power have been declared NULL and VOID by a Christless World. The MISSING (as in ABSENT) BIBLICAL DOCTRINE of CHURCH DISCIPLINE pictures the CHURCH as a SAILING SHIP with NO WIND (POWER) in her sails…drifting hopelessly in the Sea of “PRESENT EVIL WORLD” (Galatians 1:4).

Why is the Biblical Doctrine of CHURCH DISCIPLINE so important to CHURCH LIFE? Because it deals with the two major Lifelines of the New Testament CHURCH…Her BELIEFS and her BEHAVIOR… Both of which our Lord demands PURITY. We shall NEVER be able to keep the VISIBLE CHURCH in PERFECT PURITY since we are but FALLIBLE Men. However, our INABILITY to achieve PERFECTION in this matter is no EXCUSE for GIVING UP the attempt to do so.

J. L. Dagg in his "A TREATISE ON CHURCH ORDER" (Southern Baptist Publication Society Publication printed in 1858) stated: “It has been remarked, that when DISCIPLINE leaves a church, Christ goes with it.” GOD HELP US!

Thank YOU dear ones for all that YOU are doing with YOUR faithful help. Your Love, Prayers and Gifts continue to provide the aid so needed for this REVIVAL–EVANGELISM MINISTRY. I love YOU dearly in our Wonderful Lord Jesus.

Now a Word from HIS WORD: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (II Corinthians 6:17-18).