Episode 145: The Church Without Discipline

"Mr. Smith, I'm very sorry, but you have cancer."  Words such as these are said to literally thousands of people every day in the United States alone. The emotions that follow, the chance of survival, the treatment plans all differ based on many factors, but the universal question is the same for all - "how do I get rid of this?"

Cancer in the body of the church is unfortunately not looked at the same way. We don't see it as a deadly disease that must be treated and healed, or completely cut out, in order to save the body from certain death. We often compartmentalize the issue, laugh it off, make excuses...things we absolutely never do with cancer in our own body. 

Jesus, in His revelation to John, dictates a letter to the church at Thyatira, where He is warning them of this very kind of cancer that has invaded, and has diseased the body of their church. They MUST take immediate action, or destruction will follow. Jesus takes a cancer diagnosis in His beloved bride, very, very seriously...and so must we.

Join Pastor Jason as he tackles an oft disregarded, and always delicate topic of church discipline, using the next church in our study of Revelation, Thyatira, as the model for an urgent warning to the church today.

 

Reverend Jason Robbins

Highlawn Baptist Church (www.HighlawnBaptistChurch.org)

 

Today's Scriptures:

Revelation 2:18-29 NIV

1 Kings 21:7-15 NIV

Proverbs 14:1-2 NIV

Matthew 18:15-17 NIV

 

Morning Service September 12, 2021

 

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