Love is sometimes tough

Todays post should not be taken lightly. I've been thinking alot lately about church discipline and how that should look in the church today. Paul gives us an example in 1 Corinthians 5, where a believer in the Corinthian church was caught in sexual immorality. Pauls instruction to the church was to put him out of the community of believers and turn him over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. This passage assumes that an attempt to restore him had already been made in accordance with Matthew 18:15-22. It is very important to read these 2 passages together so you dont get the cart ahead of the horse. The passage in Matthew should be done first and then if the brother/sister is still unrepenent put them out of the community. This is not easy to do but it is necessary.