What It All Comes Down To

There was a man in our Church whose membership we terminated, by a vote of the members. He had repeatedly, viciously assaulted his wife. Then we decided to go back to his membership application form -- the form that we used at the time. He had left this section blank -- but after a personal interview, we had given him the benefit of the doubt. We then made the observation that in nearly every case where we had had problem members, when we went back to their membership application form, we could see the signs on the form. OBSERVATION: It need not be blanks on the form like this. There need not be anything definitely wrong. It may simply be that a clear understanding of sin and grace is not there.