What Belongs in the Church and What Must be Kept Outside (Mon. August 2)
The word for the day is “outside.”  Today’s society presents us with a choice: either prejudice or toleration.  To avoid prejudice, is our only option to accept anything or anyone as part of our fellowship? In our reading of 1 Corinthians 5:9-6:11, Paul teaches that we must draw a line between who and what are “inside” and “outside the church.”  Paul says, “I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.  Yet I certainly did not mean sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters since then you would need to go out of this world” (OSB vs. 9-10). Today we will review the cases that reveal the…