"SHERIFF TO BAN SEX OFFENDERS FROM CHURCHES,"
The Sheriff or government, can not ban them from church due to separation of church and state, keeping the state out of the church...
However, the pastor can, as they have a legal right to refuse membership to anyone living in a lifestyle that goes against church beliefs, or religious tenets.
I would think that the pastor would pray for them for deliverance, and so would the church,
and make sure they are never alone with the teens or children, send him to a deliverance ministry such as Teen Challenge, The Cleansing Stream, etc. Those deliverance ministries such as these that have a reputation for a high recovery rate, and getting deliverance from their bondage, and start by buying him a copy of "The Bondage Breaker,"
and watching Perry Stone's videos on deliverance. The offender needs out of the lifestyle of putting sin before his face, no porn, no dirty movies, and start a lifestyle of ongoing repentance, and daily input of the Word Of God, which is cleansing to all our flesh, making us clean and whole, we are made clean by the Word He has spoken to us.
John 15:3 ► Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Ephesians 5:26 ►That he might sanctify and cleanse it [the church of believers] with the washing of water by the word,
John 13:8 ► But Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you can have no part with me."
1 John 1:7,9 ► 7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
9 If we do not deny our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalms 19:12,51:2,119:9 ►
12 Who can discern his errors? Cleanse me from secret and hidden faults.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
9 How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed to and watching for your word.1
Hebrews 10:14 ► For by one offering he has forever totally cleansed and perfected those who are sanctified and made holy.
Carrie Geren Scoggins,
End Times Prophecy News Update Carrie Geren Scoggins program and webcast
