Filing a Lawsuit Against Another Christian is Grounds for Church Discipline and Ultimately Excommunication

https://ministrywatch.com/mclean-bible-church-lawsuit-lives-on/

This sort of article both frustrates and baffles me. Everyone claims to follow the Scripture and yet this is a clear (and recurring) instance of indisputable Christian disobedience and the complete setting aside of Scriptural imperatives.

Christians do not use the courts.

But they especially do not sue other Christians.

And yet because of bureaucracy as well as financial ties and interests, this is consistently ignored.

All the parties involved need to be called to repentance and if they refuse to repent and drop the lawsuit - they need to be excommunicated. It's pretty simple.

These people filing the suit need to be called out in whatever churches they presently attend. The fact that those church leaders are looking the other way while this goes on is a disgrace.

This is not to let Platt or any of his cronies off the hook. I'm sure there's plenty of shady and slippery dealings going on.

That said, why do so many people think the Church is a democracy? Of course this issue just gets further clouded when congregations write such assumptions and procedures into their by-laws and such like.

The whole thing is a disaster.

And I have to wonder if there aren't other forces at work given the accusations that Platt is somehow 'woke' - whatever that happens to mean at the moment.

I am also a little baffled by the coverage that refuses to call out these issues. But given the fact that an Internet search reveals that when this issue is addressed, most 'Christians' seem to think it's permissible, then I supposed I shouldn't be surprised.

It's but another case of the Scriptures giving a command, attaching shame and disgrace to the practice, and then Evangelicals saying 'yeah, but.....'

The other elephant in the room is the fact that Paul's argument assumes that the Church and the world are separate - divided by a wide spiritual gulf that cannot be bridged. It's in keeping with his earlier statements regarding those who are 'outside'. The problem is sacralist thinking struggles with such categories. For many Evangelicals, the notion that something as American as apple pie (in this case litigation which is more or less built in to the flawed Constitutional system) is forbidden to them is simply unacceptable, even unthinkable. And why do they think this? Because their Church leaders have failed and misled them. I was surprised even to find something like The Puritan Board to exhibit a great deal of confused thinking on this question. I guess in some respects it's an economic question and when it comes to that issue just about every Confessionalist and Evangelical I know effectively tosses their Bible out the window.

The bottom line is this - serious students of Scripture aren't going to be affected because they're not going to be attending such churches. The way this has all played out demonstrates how far removed Evangelicalism is from New Testament Christianity.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.