text: Let everything be done in love...\n\nIf you are seen to be a stumbling block, out of love you should try to reconcile and ask forgiveness if there is a valid point on their part. If there is not, then state your case plainly, and do not let your liberty be a cause for them to stumble. You can agree to disagree and find another, more understanding church if need be. \n\nSome churches are so wrapped up in their particular doctrine and dogma, that they can't see that their "control" issues are hurting the body. You first and foremost must ask and answer to God for your decisions and choices as to God's will in your life. He is Lord, not the church or it's elders. \n\nGod does gift pastors and others, and you can be sure that if their motives are of God, then there will be love and understanding, and God's Spirit, right there in the middle of it all.\n\nThe "sin in the camp" statement suggests that this is a Pentecostal church. They sometimes feel that any sin within the body hinders it from doing it's work. They seem to forget that the work of the church is to minister to sinners. That all who attend are now saved by God's grace, and are at different stages in their growth in becoming what God would have them to be.  \n\nWill they still sin?  Of course, especially those new in the faith. Should we bludgeon them with guilt and fear? No, we should love them through it. Help them to see the error and consequences of sin in a sincere, understanding and loving way. We are all the same, no better or worse than anyone else. We are all one in this faith and hope, and in the love of God. All brothers and sisters in the Lord. Let everything be done in love...