Suppose you are needing a hospital and you do some research. You find one that touts a perfect record of no one dying and no one leaving who is sick in any way. That sounds pretty good until you try to check in and find out that they only allow totally healthy people to check into their hospital. They are afraid that if they allow someone sick in there that he might infect the healthy people inside. You would not think much of that hospital, would you? It would be a waste of assets and medical training. Even worse, it would be guilty of not fulfilling its purpose of helping to heal sick and hurting people.
In the same way we cannot grade the success of a local church by the quality of its music and preaching or the beauty of its facilities. Churches have to be places were sick and hurting people are not only welcome, but seen as absolutely necessary to accomplish the purpose of the Church. If we are afraid to let unholy people in among us for fear of being contaminated, we are just as guilty as the hospital that refuses to treat the sick for fear of infection.
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