RE: Open Letter - Dear Saints in the Lord's Recovery - Joann Casteel

[Robert]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So my question is should the church get involved in personal lives? If so, what can they do if the teaching turn the brothers into this of saying they have the headship and authority over the wife.

It can be rhetorical question, but I will put my two cents.

Very often we come to the same trap of wrong thinking again!

What is CHURCH actually? Group of individuals.
Ecclesia was in Brusselles demonstrating just recently. So who was arrested?
Crowd ( ecclesia) or some individuals with certain names?
The same is with Your question.
Should crowd get involved in personal live? How?
But should individual be involved in? It depends how far You allow him.
Friends-saints knows more than saints which we do not know. This is obvious.
So letting strangers to deal with our private and sensitive problems ( doesn't matter if we call them elders or super holly servants) is riskful.
Trust and love is foundation of local group of believers called usually as church. But trust we build over the years. This construction is also proved in Bible.
If we take off trust ( built on troubles we went through) and love, then we will have only organization. If situation is so, it is better to call social worker.
I should not laughing, I know.