If Not Hell then what?

[Angrboda]

Perhaps you getting bounced from your last church was God's way of saying "shut the fuck up".

I was 'bounced' because i did not publically shun my wife for being an addict, and stand before the congergation and beg them to seperate her sins from my own. Without this declaration we were viewed as being equally guilty of the same sins, and appearently they did not want a herion addict in their church, let alone teaching.

I want to thank you for following up and answering my question. I also appreciate your explaining why you got bounced from your former church. If this is a true account of what happened — and I don't doubt that it is, given that this type of thing is not all that uncommon in some churches — I want to commend you for sticking up to them and standing by your wife. That's quite admirable. Some here may ask where you got the moral imperative to do so when others who had come to God in your former church viewed the morality of what you did completely differently. I'm not asking for an answer here, just suggesting something that you might want to think upon.

I haven't been following this thread, and I just poked in today because I noticed you had posted and felt obligated to see if you had responded to my query. I'm not going to comment on that response at this time, nor am I going to bother to catch up on this thread (I'm only on page 10 of 13). I doubt I'll be replying to you anytime soon, as I'm not particularly up for this discussion at the moment, and I've got other priorities.

Anyway, thank you for your reply, and good for you for sticking up against your former church.