Category: Organization
Subject: Organization
Associate Editorial: More About the Church of Christ (Structure and Fellowship)
Fain, Larry October 1, 1998
Doctrinal and moral purity is demanded of every Christian, and we should expect nothing less than such purity when we are talking about the local church. We cannot judge the hearts of men, but we have no choice but to judge the fruits of their lives. Just as 2 John 9-11 condemns the false teacher and any reception of that false one, the verse does not expect us to judge his motives. We could never do that anyway. We must judge the message he brings.