Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know the saying, “It takes only a little hametz to leaven a whole batch of dough?” Get rid of the old hametz, so that you can be a new batch of dough, because in reality you are unleavened. For our Pesach lamb, the Messiah, has been sacrificed. So let us celebrate the Seder not with leftover hametz, the hametz of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah of purity and truth. In my earlier letter I wrote you not to associate with people who engage in sexual immorality. I didn’t mean the sexually immoral people outside your community, or the greedy, or the thieves or the idol-worshippers — for then you would have to leave the world altogether! No, what I wrote you was not to associate with anyone who is supposedly a brother but who also engages in sexual immorality, is greedy, worships idols, is abusive, gets drunk or steals. With such a person you shouldn’t even eat! For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Isn’t it those who are part of the community that you should be judging? God will judge those who are outside. Just expel the evildoer from among yourselves.
Bible Gateway passage: 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 5:8, 1 Corinthians 5:9, 1 Corinthians 5:10, 1 Corinthians 5:11, 1 Corinthians 5:12, 1 Corinthians 5:13 - Complete Jewish Bible
Pay very close attention to the distinction Paul makes between believer and unbeliever. We judge those WITHIN the church who claim to be brothers in Christ. Those outside the church are already condemned and judged. We have the responsibility to judge those within the Church. And in the case of allowing and promoting the sin of homosexuality to be part of the clergy is sin of the highest order. How can a person living in sin and who rejects the gospel rightly divide the word of truth? No they should be removed from the church if they claim to be part of the Church. If you don't belive that then you don't believe in God's word and are following a false doctrine.
The unbeliever, no matter who they are should be welcome. Because they can't help themselves and need the message of the gospel that Christ came to seek and save those who are lost. And that message cannot be shared by those who are still in rebellion against the gospel.
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