Discipline and Missions

About three months ago, I had a pleasant surprise. A man, unknown to me, phoned and asked if he could come to talk with me. I consented and he shared with me his story. He was a counselor in one of the many drug rehab centers in Singapore. There he was involved in counseling a member of the ERCS who was struggling with the sin of drunkenness. Almost the entire organization was judgmental over what the church had done tothis member. They had excommunicated him from the fellowship of the...