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During a lesson about being careful with judging, and urging folk to offer gentle corrections, preferably grounded in strong spiritual relationships, I ask, "Is there ever a case where the sin just has to be judged, and the sinner 'put out?'" A few said no. Then I turned to the one case in the New Testament in which someone was put out of church: 1 Corinthians 5: 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. Then I stopped and said, "This was 2000 years ago. Can I stop for a minute and just say ICK???!!!" One of the class, who'd witnessed disgusting behavior in her short life time, responded by saying "That's [explative] up!" That raised some eyebrows. I don't encourage course language in church, or elsewhere. Nevertheless, I grabbed ahold of the sentiment and said, "How refreshing! This young person still has the capability to be disgusted by sin! Schools, teachers, classmates, Hollywood--they all pound us with, "Who's to judge? Who's to say? How about the Word of God? How about God himself? How about basic human morality??? The church was proud of this fellow. Perhaps they said that he and his mom (perhaps step mom) were in a committed relationship. They were, after all, two consenting adults. The only noise to be heard was the heretical "Grace grace grace grace." Grace is beautiful. I need it still. However, it is God's response to repentance, not stubborn sinning. Maybe we're in trouble when there's a vulgar utterance in the church, and the preacher is actually relieved that someone still has a sense of righteousness?