DISCIPLINE IN TRUTH

DISCIPLINE IN TRUTH 1 Corinthians 5:1-8 http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=1+Corinthians+5:1-8Dear Father, who disciplines us for our own good,Save your church from the sexual perversions that are taking placein our society. Let us show your love to sinners and show them howto receive forgiveness. But may we also say, as Jesus said, "Sin nomore!"Help us to exercise discipline, even to the removal of unrepentantmembers, delivering them over to Satan for the destruction of theflesh so that their spirits may be saved in the day of the LordJesus. Help us not to cover up sin and then boast about ourtolerance! For a little yeast can ferment a whole lump of dough!Help us remove the leaven of sin, so that our churches may be likepure unleavened bread.Since Christ, our passover lamb, has been sacrificed, let uscelebrate the festival, not with the leaven of malice and evil, butwith the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.In the name of Jesus I ask for wisdom in matters of discipline andfor the loving spirit of the Savior himself. Amen.