Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Corinthians 6:1-6
by: Dale Rood.
This is a tough one—an issue that we tend to avoid in our churches, but should not. Ideally there should be no cause for judgment between believers in dispute. However, we do not live in an ideal world. Our problem is that we worry too much about offending someone. It is important that we seek justice in situations where wrong has been committed. And we are all too familiar in our day with failure to judge offenses, especially in cases of sexual abuse. Most of our churches have procedures in place for dealing with offense within the church, but do we ever use them? The way we handle these situations reflects on our integrity.