The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Cultural influences on worship

Tom,

Here's the bottom line... Shai Linne may be regenerate, which God only knows absolutely. However, these two truths are nonetheless inescapable and mandated by Scripture:

1. IF, as you would like to suggest, that Shai Linne's blasphemous references to God and errors in theology are due to simple ignorance, then IF that is the case, then he has no warrant to be teaching or evangelizing. No church should encourage him to allow nor encourage him in these things but rather counsel him to first grow in the faith and be trained in the Gospel and biblical truth.

2. The fact that his blasphemy is publicly known and promoted, whatever church has authority over him should confront him with this odious sin and instruct him that such sin should be repented of. If he refuses to repent, then he should be disciplined and if necessary excommunicate him from the Church. Excommunication is the declaring that the individual in question either believes or lives contrary to his/her confession of faith and more importantly what God demands of profession believers as He has revealed His will in Scripture. And thus, the individual is cast out of the Church as an unbeliever in the hopes that such a pronouncement will be instrumental in having the weight of the seriousness of the situation bear upon their minds and hearts so that they will repent and return to the Church.

I cannot stress the severity of what is going on in the contemporary Church and Shai Linne (and doubtless others) are not only received but held up as ambassadors of Christ by Elders and Teachers. If nothing else, this certainly demonstrates how far the visible Church has fallen from grace and rebelled against the kingship of Christ and His infallible Word. The world is taking dominion over much of the church and not by force but rather shamefully, by invitation.