Curious how the quote from the email mentions nothing from the Gospels. The school's position seems like it might be at odds with things like Matthew 5:43-47, 6:14-15, 7:1-5, 8:10-13, or 18:12-13. Should a Christian schooI try to help accused sinners get right instead of simply banishing them?
Get thee behind me, faggot. Jesus was talking to the unsaved, not his own church. Remember Matthew 7:15-19. More importantly, Revelation 2:
18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write,
‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: 19 “I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. 20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. 22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
24 “Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden. 25 But hold fast what you have till I come. 26 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—
27 ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—
as I also have received from My Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star.
29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’
What folly.
help accused sinners get right
You don't understand the gospel at all. There is nothing you can "do" to get right with God; he chose some who will believe in response to hearing the word. How much less can you "do" something to get someone else right with God.
And what is all of this "accused" business?
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