Just when you think that things are bad at home in the BGCT, you read this. Did the North Carolina State Convention rightly, and by rightly I mean biblically, remove a church that was trying to get publicity and/or be ground-breaking (language which also is used about the BGCT's election of it's first female president) by allowing those who are practicing homosexuals not only to be members, but lesbian deacons?

Here is the over arching question: Does the teaching, in Matthew 18:15-20, concerning church discipline, apply to a church's relationship with an association, convention? Or a national convention with a state convention? An association with a local church? What about church, convention autonomy?

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